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Self-confessed murderer walks free
Police file never entered court
In the late morning of November 27, 2008, Andrew Gomes took the life of his father, 57-year-old Stanislaus Gomes, a murder that rocked the village of Waiakabra, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
After several court appearances, Andrew Gomes was made to walk as a free man last Wednesday. The police failed to present the necessary file with the confession and other statements to the court.
Relatives of the self-confessed murderer expressed their concern at having such a criminal walk the streets.
One relative of Gomes told Kaieteur News that he was threatened by his now 25-year-old nephew, who reportedly said “that he said he hasn’t finished the job…..that he’s coming for all those who put him in there (Camp Street Prison).”
The now deceased Stanislaus Gomes
According to reports, Andrew Gomes hacked his father about the body, and subsequently decapitated the elderly man. Earlier reports state that it was after the elder Gomes refused to give his son $200 to purchase drugs that the assault and murder took place.
“It is reported that the son then (after his father’s refusal) inflicted several chops with a cutlass to the body of Stanislaus Gomes, severing his head in the process,” said a police release.
According to Gomes’s relatives, no police file had ever made it to the Providence Court, and as such Magistrate Priya Beharry was forced to discharge the case. Relatives of Gomes were left shocked at the decision, and referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who confirmed that the Magistrate was well within her rights to discharge the case.
Kaieteur News understands that the younger Gomes was a drug addict, and that his addiction was ongoing for “quite some time.” He had made threats to his father’s life on several occasions prior to the murder.
According to reports reaching Kaieteur News the police detective in charge of the investigations never appeared in court, and the file containing information on the murder was never handed over to the Providence Magistrate’s Court.
Relatives further disclosed that the young man had confessed to committing the murder. They added that, even though he was not required to plead to the indictable matter, Gomes confessed in court that he had murdered his father.
Uncle of the murderer, Winston Gomes, told Kaieteur News that Gomes had threatened him after being released, and that they had made a report to the police. The family was then informed that Gomes could not be rearrested for the murder of his father, but that the police would look into the matter of the threat.
Winston Gomes told Kaieteur News reporters that his nephew is currently being hidden by his grandparents somewhere on the Demerara River.
Andrew Gomes
After committing the crime, Andrew Gomes had run to a neighbour’s home some two miles away from the scene of the crime, with the bloody cutlass used in the murder. He was picked up within an hour of committing the capital crime by ranks of the Timehri Police Station, and was taken away without putting up any form of resistance.
Stanislaus Gomes and his son, his only child, lived on a large plot of land, an average ten-minute drive from the highway, through a number of trails.
There, Gomes cultivated eddoes and cash crops which he sold to earn his income. Gomes had often complained to relatives that the young man would sometimes be unwilling to help him.
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