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Relatives turn in South Central murder suspect
Brian Leitch, the 19-year-old suspect in the murder of guest house proprietor Jagdeo Joseph, surrendered to police yesterday after being taken in by relatives.
Brian Leitch, called ‘Big Foot’
Kaieteur News accompanied the youth and his relatives to Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, after the relatives had contacted this newspaper.
The suspect was then taken to the Brickdam Police Station before being detained at the Golden Grove Police Station.
Kaieteur News understands that Leitch has admitted to being acquainted with one of the women who frequented the guest house where Jagdeo was slain. He also said that he had given the woman a cell phone.
Leitch’s mother said she first became aware that her son was wanted by the police after seeing a bulletin and photograph of him in yesterday’s Kaieteur News.
Leitch, called ‘Pim-Pim’ and ‘Big Foot,’ was released about a year ago from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC).
He is autistic and could scarcely relate to the dire situation he happened to be in. He also could not recognize the hotel when shown a photograph of the building.
Jagdeo, 63, was found bound, gagged and strangled in Room Ten at his South Road premises on Friday, November 14, after some employees who had not seen him since the previous day, became concerned about his whereabouts.
The cause of death was given as asphyxia due to manual strangulation.
An employee of the slain proprietor had told Kaieteur News that an individual known as ‘Big Foot’ had rented a room at the guest house at the time that Jagdeo was murdered. The employee said that the hotel guest was the boyfriend of a woman who frequented the premises.
It was alleged that the guest stole two cell phones from Jagdeo and Kaieteur News was told that police recovered one of the phones from a woman who resides in Kitty.
The woman reportedly identified the former hotel guest as the individual who gave her the phone.
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