Five young men were yesterday remanded to prison over the murder of Bheim Evans of Number 11 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB), who was fatally beaten on Saturday last.
The men: Brian Evans, 22, labourer of Lot 145 Number 12 Village, WCB; Ryan Dhanraj, 27, mason, of Lot 203 Bath Settlement, WCB; Samuel Vanbrook, 22, of Lot ‘B’ Bath Settlement, WCB; James David, 19, Lot 223 Number 10 Village, WCB and Leeward Chung, 21, labourer, Lot 318 Bath Settlement, WCB, appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Peter Hugh.
The men are charged with murdering Evans on Saturday last at Waterloo, Bath Settlement.
The five men, who were represented by attorney-at-law, Mursaline Bacchus, were not required to enter a plea.
Police prosecutor, Kevin London, told the court that the file has been completed, and that they were also putting together video evidence. As such, the men were remanded to prison and will return on December, 8, for disclosure.
Evans, 54, a labourer, sustained injuries about his head and body during the attack, while his son, Tishan Persaud, 21, also a labourer, sustained injuries to his left arm, head and back.
Persaud had told Stabroek News that on the day in question, he went to a club in Bath Settlement and while he was heading over to his sister’s house, the group of five men approached him. “Them snatch me and start to beat me with cutlass, rope and chain”, the injured man recounted.
According to him, the men continued to beat him until his father arrived. “When my father come, them say is my father them want and is me father went in one of them house and take a chain and silver chain, gold chain and eight gold ring and them start to beat him.”
Persaud said that at that point the group of men continuously beat both him and his father but after they realised that his father had become unconscious, they ordered him to assist them in removing his father’s body from the area.
“Them beat de man bad and kick him in the face and bruk one of his ribs. Them done beat my father and them take my father and carry him in front a lady house and she start fight that them can’t put he there and them beat me fa heist my father and carry he another place,” Persaud said.
According to him, the attackers told him to take his father home but after they left he rushed to the Fort Wellington Police Station and returned with lawmen who transported his father to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital. Evans, a father of 12, died while receiving treatment at the hospital.
