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Hogstye robbery suspects released without charge

Oct 01, 2009 News

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered that no charges be laid against the five men, three of them known criminals, who were nabbed last week in a car immediately after a robbery in Hogstye, Corentyne.

One of the men is Samuel Fraser, who was recently freed of murder in Berbice and has since been charged with escaping from lawful custody, an act that was allegedly committed in November 2008.

Mahohar Seadat, a deportee who returned to the country in March after serving three years in jail in the USA for possession of drugs, and Sherman Thompson were detained with Fraser.

The other two men are taxi drivers, one of whom police had alleged took the men to the scene and another who was driving the suspected getaway car in which the men were intercepted.

According to information reaching Kaieteur News, files were prepared and forwarded to the DPP for advice.

However after studying the files, the DPP decided that no charges could be laid against the men, since suspicion is not a crime.

She pointed out that although a gun and matching ammunition were found in the vehicle, it was observed that the vehicle is a hire car and that the gun and ammunition were not found in a bag on or any of the men.

Anyone could have left a gun in a hire car.

No matching rounds were found at the scene of the robbery although the police returned there on more that one occasion.

Police had arrested the five men whom they believed were responsible for terrorizing and robbing a businessman Subash Singh, 50, and his wife Jaiwantie, 47, and their family of Hogstye, Corentyne Berbice of over $6M in cash and jewellery.

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