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Jun 20, 2014 News
After four months, the 23-year-old sandpit labourer who was indicted for the murder of taxi driver Savitri Parma was
committed to stand trial in the High Court by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry when the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) concluded on Tuesday.
Sylvester Bristol also known as ‘Rambo’ will be called before a Supreme Court Judge and Jury for trial at the next sitting of the Demerara Assizes.
The charge which was laid against him alleged that between February 15 and 16, last, at Dakara Creek on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, he murdered Parma, a mother of two who resided at Loncke’s Avenue, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.
The victim was reportedly raped and strangled with a bootlace, several hours before her body was discovered in a clump of bushes about one mile from Jubilee Fun Park and Resort, Timehri, East Bank Demerara, in the wee hours of the morning of February 16.
She was said to have been murdered by the accused, whom she offered a lift to Loam Pit after picking him up at his workplace on the night of February 15.
While Parma’s body was reportedly found face down with her head “pressed to the earth,” her nine-year-old son was found sleeping in the rear seat of her abandoned taxi hours later by her husband who decided to search for his “missing wife.”
Investigators who probed the case were led to the accused, who was reportedly found hiding in a wardrobe at his living quarters at Bashir Sandpit, Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
On February 19, Bristol was brought before the courts to face a murder charge.
The case was prosecuted by Corporal Bharat Mangru who is attached to the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
During the course of the PI, the court heard testimonies from the widower Kamal Parma, their nine-year-old son; her father-in-law Kissoon Parma, her sister, Sharon Gangadeen, Detective Constable Mark Gaspar; Constable Ze Bartholomey; Constable Shawn Beharry; Detective Corporal Osmond Semple; taxi driver Quacy Major; one of Parma’s passengers Damian Dias; Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anthony Vanderhyden; sandpit owner Basdeo Mohammed; Bristol’s workmate Rabindranauth Latchman and Timehri Police Station’s Sergeant Moore.
Bristol was unrepresented by legal counsel.
Yesterday, at the final hearing, the Chief Magistrate ruled that the Prosecution had established a prima facie case of murder against the accused.
When presented with the chance to testify in the witness’ box, provide an unsworn statement from the prisoner’s docks or remain silent, the accused said he was innocent.
Attorney-at-Law Adrian Thompson whom the court had asked to appear amicus curiae, informed the court that Bristol will reserve his witnesses for the proceedings at the High Court.
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