Police in Regional Division #7 are investigating the murder of 32-year-old Raphael Cadogan, a mechanic from Tucville, Georgetown, and the attempted murder of his 25-year-old brother, Clive Anthony Cadogan, a welder from Lot 171 Middle Street, Silvertown, Linden.
The act was committed by a 31-year-old ‘pitman’ on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 6:30 hrs at Sulphur Rose Backdam, Cuyuni River, the police said in a release today.
A party of police visited the scene at about 20:00 hrs on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
Investigations so far reveal that the two brothers and the suspect were all employed by Hopkinson Mining and worked on an operation in the aforementioned backdam.
Clive Cadogan, the suspect, and other employees were watching a football game at a shop on Monday, December 5, 2022, when an argument erupted, resulting in a fight between the suspect and Clive over the suspect’s girlfriend, the police said. The girlfriend broke up the fight, and Clive returned to the camp and went to bed.
Clive was awakened the next morning around 6:00 hrs by the suspect shaking his bed, the police said. The suspect then chopped him in the back of the neck with a cutlass. Clive’s brother (the deceased), who was in the same camp, intervened, and the suspect dealt him one chop to the right shoulder before fleeing. Clive and the brother were then rushed to the Aurora compound for medical attention, but Raphael succumbed upon arrival.
Shortly after, Clive Cadogan and his brother’s body were escorted to Bartica Hospital, where Clive was admitted and his brother was pronounced dead.
