After eluding detectives for 20 years, the suspect in the 2002 murder of Roshanie Sooklall was captured at about 17:30 hrs yesterday by police ranks, acting on information received.
The police today said that ranks from the Anna Regina Police Station went to the Onderneeming/Sand Pit area on the Essequibo Coast where the 51-year-old murder suspect Gautier Jerome Fernandes, was arrested.
Fernandes, a labourer, was arrested for the murder of Sooklall which occurred in the year 2002 at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
He is presently in custody at the Anna Regina Police Station.