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Jun 18, 2014 News
Two teenagers were charged yesterday in connection with the killing of a 17-year-old Lusignan taxi driver whose body
was discovered in a cane field aback of Parika, East Bank Essequibo.
Following intense investigations, Abdul Razac, 18, and Aswraf Ally, 17 were yesterday taken before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to be jointly indicted on murder/robbery charges.
The duo appeared in court days after a search was launched for taxi driver Dhanraj Latchman who had been missing since last Tuesday.
The Toyota Carina AT 212 which Latchman was driving was found in the Parika backlands last Thursday, two days after he was reportedly hired by the two accused. The following day, investigators found Latchman’s lifeless body in the said cane field.
Reports are that the teens, who are also cousins, had used one of the seat belts from the victim’s car to strangle him before dumping his body.
A post mortem examination which was performed on Latchman’s body yesterday gave the cause of death as asphyxiation due to compound injury to the neck, which is consistent with being strangled.
Ali and Razac were yesterday charged in open court for the taxi driver’s murder. They are the latest pair of teenage offenders to appear before the courts to be indicted for murder this year; particularly that which involves carjacking.
The charge which was read to the duo alleged that between June 10 and June 14, last, at Parika Backdam, they murdered Latchman during the course of a robbery – to steal one car PMM9523, one BlackBerry cellular phone and another.
The teens were not called upon to enter a plea since the charge was laid indictably.
Corporal Bharat Mangru who prosecuted did not reveal the details of the alleged murder. The accused were unrepresented by legal counsel.
At the end of the short hearing, Magistrate Sewnarine-Beharry remanded the duo to prison.
The case was transferred to the Leonora Magistrate’s Court and is set to be called again on July 24.
In a similar situation earlier this year, 17-year-old Lorenzo Forde was charged for the murder of a Pegasus taxi driver. Through tracking cellular phone data, investigators were led to Forde. The man’s body was found in a garbage heap.
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