Glaston Henry, a brother of Joel Henry, one of the two West Coast Berbice (WCB) cousins who were brutally murdered last September is among four persons charged with the murder of Haresh Singh in September last year.
Singh was attacked and murdered days after the cousins were found dead in the WCB backdam.
Police upon receiving legal advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution yesterday afternoon said that the four suspects in custody have been charged with the murder of Singh.
The three charged along with Glaston also called ‘Gladwin Henry’ are: 29-year-old Philip Anderson called ‘Ratman’ both of #3 Village, West Coast Berbice; 27-year-old Joel Gittins called ‘Bolo’ of Jangotown, North Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara; and 21-year-old Charles Scott called ‘Bucko’ of Jarvis Street, Rosignol, Berbice.
In a brief statement yesterday, the police stated that the quartet appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh at the Fort Welling-ton Magistrate’s Court. Their arraignment was done virtually.
The men were not required to plead and were remanded to prison. The case will be called again on July 12 at Blairmont Magistrate’s Court for report.
Police last Wednesday arrested Anderson, Gittins and Scott and on Friday issued a bulletin for Glaston. He turned himself in on Saturday in the company of his lawyer, Nigel Hughes.
Seventeen-year-old Singh, also known as ‘Raj’, of Lot 8, Number 3 Village, West Coast Ber-bice, was found with head injuries and chop wounds along the No. 2 Village backdam on September 9, 2020.
Singh left home on his motorcycle to tend to his farm in the backdam of No. 3 Village. Sometime after, his relatives saw smoke rising from the backdam and left to investigate. They discovered the body of Singh lying motionless. His nose was bleeding. His motorcycle had also been burnt.
An autopsy later concluded that he died as a result of brain haemorrhaging and blunt trauma to the head, compounded by compression injuries to his neck.
Singh was murdered days after teenage cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry were slain. Singh’s murder was believed to be a reprisal killing as several of his relatives had been initially held in connection with the murder of the cousins.
During the initial investigations into Singh’s murder, a number of persons were detained for questioning. However no charges were laid.
