Two charged for killing Chateau Margot businessman

Nov 20, 2010 News 0

Appearing before Magistrate Judy Latchman, yesterday, at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court were 26-year-old Victor Bobb of ‘B’ Field Sophia, Georgetown, and 18-year-old Quincy Arthur of Plaisance, Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, to answer a charge of murder. It is alleged that on Tuesday, last, the defendants murdered 64-year-old Dennis Ramah. Bobb was unrepresented and Arthur was represented by attorney-at-law Rexford Jackson.
The defendants were not required to plead, since the charge is indictable.
The lawyer requested that the defendants be taken for medical examinations, since they contended that they were brutally assaulted by police ranks.
The court was told that on November 16, last, the defendants were executing a robbery, when Ramah was shot by gunmen and later succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC). Bobb and Arthur are to make their next court appearance on January 6, 2011. The two were allegedly part of a six-member gang that invaded the L&D Shopping Centre. According to police sources, Arthur is a well known character.
The brazen daylight robbery at 18 Second Street, Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara has left a businessman dead, as well as one of the attackers, and a Rural Constable nursing a gunshot wound at a private hospital. Ramah’s son, Nigel, had told Kaieteur News that around 09:30 hours on Tuesday, a man entered his father’s business place, posing as a customer.  He said that the man ordered a “chip” from an employee and as she was attending to the “customer”, four others entered the supermarket.
He said that two of the men then held the employees at gunpoint and ordered them to lie face down on the floor, while the other three went upstairs. While in the businessman’s home, Nigel said that his mother, Lorine Ramah, was held at gunpoint and was ordered by one of the gunmen to hand over cash and jewellery. He said that his mother directed the men to a cupboard in the kitchen.
It was while in the kitchen, that his father entered the house with a cutlass and attacked one of the gunmen from behind. He stated that the gunman was chopped on his back. One of the man’s accomplices then shot Dennis Ramah in the chest. Kaieteur News understands that the dead bandit has not been identified.