Two inmates of the New Amsterdam Prison were yesterday found guilty at the High Court of the murder of a fellow prisoner in an attack at the facility in 2017
In July, 2017, Dillon Boucher, 25, of Haslington Village, East Coast Demerara; Rooplall Abrahim, 24, of Lot 4 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice; and Ramchand Latchman, 23, of Number 65 Village, Corentyne, were charged with the murder of Neshan Jagmohan, 27.
Boucher and Latchman were yesterday found unanimously guilty by a jury following a trial before Justice Sandil Kissoon in Berbice.
They will return to court on October 26 for sentencing.
In 2020, Abrahim, who testified against the two during the trial on behalf of the state, had opted to plead guilty to the killing of Neshan and was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Jagmohan, a cane harvester of Hampshire Squatting Area, and his older brother, Ramnarine Jagmohan, a farmer, of Belvedere Squatting Area, had both been remanded on a murder charge over the killing of the Hampshire Squatting Area, Corentyne businessman Devindra Deodat, 34, called ‘Dave,’ in October of 2013.
Having attended court on June 21, 2017, they returned to their cells at the New Amsterdam prison where they were attacked by inmates with improvised weapons.
The men were rushed to the hospital where Neshan was pronounced dead on arrival, while his brother was hospitalized for some time.
A post-mortem examination which was done on Neshan revealed that he died from puncture wounds to the heart, lungs, and kidneys.
During the trial, the court heard that he was stabbed 26 times.
