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Two charged for manslaughter, denied bail
Two persons who were indicated in the “vigilante style” killing of electrician Hardel Haynes were yesterday charged for manslaughter after they made their court appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
Hardel Haynes
Ordock Reid, 48, of 1968 Blue Mountain Road Festival City; and Keith Binns, 40, of A 76 East La Penitence, on December 9, unlawfully killed Haynes. They were not required to plead to the indictable offence.
According to Police Prosecutor Denise Griffith, bail should be denied because if the two defendants are admitted to bail they would not return to court.
Bail was denied and the two defendants are expected to make their next appearance on January 27, 2009.
Ordock Reid
The two men were charged after the Director of Prosecution recommended charges. Hardel Haynes was killed after a mob mistook him for a thief.
He was beaten around 02:15 hrs by persons at Perai Square, East La Penitence. He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he died while receiving medical attention.
Kaieteur News understands that Haynes was riding a bicycle on his way home when he was attacked by a group of men, who began to physically assault him.
A resident of the area said that she got up around 02:00 hrs after hearing people calling her name and cries of thief. The woman said that after she came outside she was informed by neighbours that they had seen a man coming from her window, fleeing with her television set.
Keith Binns
She said that on checking her premises, she observed that three louver panes were missing from windows in her verandah.
Two other panes had also been pulled out from windows near her front step. She also observed that her back door was open and her television was missing.
The woman said that she saw some other residents with a man, whose clothing was muddied.
The man’s forehead was swollen and the residents had to hold him up, since he appeared to be weak and was unable to speak.
She explained that she was unable to say whether this was the same man who had broken into her house, since she had never laid eyes on the thief.
According to her, the residents said that they had apprehended the man since he had ‘looked suspicious’.
The victim was taken to the East La Penitence Outpost, on the advice of a police rank who was present among the residents. She said that the next thing she heard was that the man was “dead”.
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