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Jul 02, 2015 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News
There have been several reported incidents of bandits trailing persons from city banks and robbing them. The police apprehended one of them, Sherwin Trotman. They believe that he had ridden the getaway motorcycle after Mahaica rice farmer,
Hardat Kissoon, was robbed and killed.
Kissoon, a father of three, was fatally shot during a minibus robbery at University of Guyana Road, Turkeyen, after he was trailed from a city bank where he had encashed a cheque for $500,000.
Trotman, an excavator operator, was yesterday arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with the capital offence of murder.
Trotman, 32, of Lot 45 Section D, South Turkeyen, allegedly murdered Kissoon while in the company of another on June 1, last.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charge after it was read to him by Magistrate Ann Mc Lennon.
Trotman was remanded to prison until July 8 and will appear at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court.
The defendant, who was unrepresented, explained to the court that he was never taken on an Identification Parade. He said that they are no witnesses or statements in the matter.
Trotman recalled that he was arrested and shown a video obtained from Close Circuit Television (CCTV). He explained that while watching the video he saw two men on a motorcycle. However, he emphasized that he was unable to make out the images on the video because they were blurred.
Trotman claimed that he was interrogated by Assistant Superintendant of Police, Michael Caesar and
Sergeant Subaru. He pointed out that the officers asked him if he had killed the man and he replied in the negative.
It was then the officers informed him that they were going to arrest him because he was the rider.
The murder accused also claimed that Sergeant Seeram gave him a phone and asked him to call his relatives to bring $2M at Diamond Station for his release.
Police Prosecutor, Deniro Jones, said that the incident was captured on CCTV camera.
Kissoon, 42, of Cane Grove, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara was shot and killed around 14:30hrs, by a bandit posing as a passenger in the minibus he was travelling in, when another man in the vehicle requested to get off.
As the man was passing Kissoon, he pulled out a firearm and held the rice farmer at gunpoint and demanded a bag that he had in his possession.
A struggle ensued over the bag during which Hardat Kissoon was shot to his chest and the perpetrator escaped with the bag.
Kissoon lay dead in the back seat of the minibus until his body was transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was officially pronounced dead on arrival.
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