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Salim Bacchus PI begins

Dec 16, 2012 News

 

The preliminary inquiry into the charge of murder against alleged narcotics dealer Salim “Black Salim” Bacchus, 52, of 39 Line Path ‘D’, Skeldon, Corriverton, Corentyne, Berbice has begun at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Krisendat Persaud.
Bacchus, for whom a wanted bulletin had been issued, is charged with the murder of Police narcotics detective constable, Jirahan Diananand, on September 14, last.
The murdered policeman was found slumped in his car that was parked on a desolate stretch of road at Jackson Creek, Upper Corentyne with two bullet wounds to his head.
When the trial began last Thursday, main prosecution witness, Azim Seegobin, who is the nephew of Salim gave his evidence in chief and related the sequence of events of what transpired on the fateful night and after.
At the conclusion of his evidence he was cross examined by Defence Counsel Attorney at Law Ramesh Rajkumar. So far he has been in the witness box for more than two days being grilled by Attorney at Law Rajkumar and is expected to return to the box on Monday when the matter is to continue.
The case for the prosecution is being presented by Superintendent R.Tyndall. The prosecution is contending that sometime between September 13 and September 14, 2012 at Jackson Creek, Bacchus murdered detective constable Jirahan Diananand.
The story came to light when three men were arrested following a carjacking incident at the same Jackson Creek on the Upper Corentyne. Two men were arrested by the police on West Coast Berbice. One of the men, a nephew of Bacchus, after intense grilling by investigators admitted to knowing about the killing of Detective Diananand in which they implicated Bacchus as the gunman.
The nephew allegedly told investigators that Bacchus shot Diananand twice in the head after a pre arranged deal went sour.

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