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May 17, 2013 News
Three more police officers took to the witness box as the trial of three former Coast Guard ranks, charged with the murder of Bartica gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass, continued yesterday before Justice Franklyn Holder at the Suddie High Court.
The trial which began last week is now engaged in a second voir dire (trial within a trial) to determine the admissibility of caution statements allegedly made by the number two accused, Delon Gordon.
Testifying yesterday were Corporal Aniroudth Bissoon from La Grange Police Station, Corporal Lynette Phillips from Parika Station and Sergeant Joel Ally. The matter will continue today. Prosecutor Judith Gildharie–Mursalin is presenting the state’s case, while Attorney at law Peter Hugh is representing the three accused.
Sherwin Harte, the number one accused; Delon Gordon, number two and Deon Greenidge are charged with the August 2009 murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass which took place at Caiman Hole, East Bank, Essequibo.
The three men (at the time two Privates and a Lance Corporal) were manning a Coast Guard RC 12 motor boat in the Essequibo River, when they allegedly confronted Ramdass in a vessel at the Parika Stelling. The soldiers allegedly forced him into their boat and took him to another location in the river where they relieved him of $17M in cash which he was carrying in a box to Bartica for his employer, who operated a gold and diamond business in the city.
The prosecution is trying to prove that the three accused strangled Ramdass, took the money he was carrying and dumped his body overboard in the vicinity of Bonasika Creek. They will argue that after murdering Ramdass, the trio returned to the Parika Stelling, where a female was waiting for them. She was reportedly given $5.7M in cash to hold.
According to reports, another portion of the money was recovered by the police during a roadblock
exercise. The three men were committed to stand trial in the High Court in 2011, by Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin following an 18-month Preliminary Inquiry at the Vreed en Hoop Magistrate’s Court. Attorney at law Khemraj Ramjattan, who was assigned to the matter as special prosecutor, had led a total of 14 witnesses to give evidence.
The witnesses included persons who saw when the accused took Ramdass out of the boat, and when they returned to the boat without him, but with a canister that he was carrying.
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