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Salim Bacchus to stand trial for cop killing

May 23, 2013 News

 

 

Murder accused and alleged narcotics dealer, Salim “Black Salim” Bacchus, 52, of 39 Line Path ‘D’, Skeldon, Corriverton,  Corentyne, Berbice has been committed to stand trial in the next criminal session of the Berbice High Court for the murder of Police Narcotics Detective Constable Jirahan Diananand.
Constable Diananand was found dead on September 14, 2012. He was shot.
On Tuesday, Salim was committed to stand trial at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry which was conducted by Magistrate Krisendat Persaud at the Springlands Magistrate’s court.
The murdered policeman was found slumped in his car on a desolate stretch of road at Jackson Creek, Upper Corentyne with two bullet wounds to his head.
The case for the prosecution which was led by police Superintendent Robert Tyndall, who was specially appointed to prosecute the matter, was that sometime between September 13 and September 14, 2012 at Jackson Creek, Bacchus murdered Detective Constable Jirahan Diananand.
Bacchus was represented by Attorneys at Law Ramesh Rajkumar and Mursalene Bacchus.
The story came to light after three men were arrested following a carjacking incident at the same Jackson Creek on the Upper Corentyne. Two of them were arrested by the West Berbice police. They were Salim Bacchus’ nephews. They were held with another youth and subsequently admitted to the carjacking.
After intense grilling by investigators they also admitted to knowing about the killing of Detective Diananand. They implicated Bacchus as the gunman. They allegedly told investigators that Bacchus shot Diananand twice in the head after a pre arranged deal went sour.
A wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest and Bacchus accompanied by Attorney at Law Rajkumar turned himself in to the CID office at Central Police Station, New Amsterdam.
During the trial, prosecution star witnesses Azim Seegobin and Azam Bacchus, two nephews of Bacchus gave their evidence in chief and related the sequence of events of what transpired on the fateful night and after. They were cross examined.
Also during the P.I the two sides had a number of issues, including the defence demanding a copy of the statement of one of the prosecution’s star witness who had admitted under cross examination that he had refreshed his memory from the statement before he entered the witness box.
The prosecution complied.
Bacchus is the brother of Azad Bacchus, also known as ‘AK 472 , who was killed in a shootout with the Berbice Anti-Smuggling Squad (BASS) in 2001. He and three other men were previously charged in connection with a 40 kilogrammes cocaine bust in November 2011.
Bacchus was acquitted in June 2012 but the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) appealed the acquittal.

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