The five men who are accused of murdering the Number 70 Village, Corentyne carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt back in 2016, were moments ago found guilty following their trial at the High Court in Berbice.
The five accused are Orlando Dickie, Radesh Motie, Diodath Datt, Harri Paul Parsram and Niran Yacoob. The state was being represented by special prosecutor Latchmie Rahamat and state prosecutor Nafeeza Baig.
Attorney Mursaline Bacchus is representing Dickie, Motie and Datt, while attorney Arud Gossai is representing Parsram and Yacoob.
Two weeks ago, a 12-member jury was empanelled at the High Court before Justice Navindra Singh to commence hearing evidence in the case.
After Justice Singh summed up the matter this morning, the jury deliberated for several hours after which they returned with a unanimous guilty verdict for each of the accused.
Narinedatt was found lying lifeless on the Number 70 Village public road, Corentyne on November 1, 2016 with marks of violence on his body.
Investigators were initially treating the matter as a hit-and-run. However, relatives of Narinedatt pleaded with the police to further investigate the incident as they believed he was murdered, based on information provided to them.
A post-mortem examination revealed that he died from a fractured skull but had also sustained a fractured spine and other injuries about his body.
A sixth accused, Marcus Bisram, who been charged with procuring the five men to murder Bisram, was earlier this year freed of the murder charge by the Caribbean Court of Justice, which ruled that he could only be prosecuted by way of “fresh evidence.”
The ruling concluded a two-year-legal battle waged by Bisram against the DPP’s directing that he be committed to stand trial for the murder.
