Moblissa double murder suspect captured

Dec 02, 2013 News

– reportedly confessed to committing deed after being accused of rape

Police have captured Orin Rodrigues, the 20-year-old who allegedly murdered his 34-year-old stepsister Molly James and her 15-year-old son at Moblissa on Saturday.
Rodrigues was captured at around noon yesterday at his home, located in the Moblissa backlands near the Demerara River. Ranks had reportedly cordoned off the area to prevent his escape.
Kaieteur News understands that the slightly built suspect readily confessed to killing Ms. James and her son, Aaron, and even took police to an area in his yard where he had stashed the murder weapon.
He is said to have appeared unperturbed by his capture and was even smiling.
Police were reportedly tipped off to his whereabouts by some of Rodrigues’ relatives, who had been taken into custody on Saturday.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect claimed that he had planned to murder Molly James, who is his stepsister, after she informed police on Friday that he had sex with a 13-year-old relative of hers.
According to reports, Rodrigues sneaked into the woman’s camp at Moblissa at around 03:30 hrs on Saturday, while the family was asleep.
It is alleged that he first stabbed the sleeping Ms. James.
This newspaper was reliably informed that the woman’s son, Aaron, was awakened by a noise and saw Rodrigues stabbing his mother. He screamed to his 13-year-old sister and they both ran out of the camp towards the public road.
The 13-year-old told investigators that Rodrigues ran after them and caught up with her brother.
She claimed that she kept running but managed to look behind her and saw Rodrigues stabbing her brother.
She managed to run to her friend’s home on the public road where she told them what happened.
James’s other children and two relatives, who were in her camp at the time, escaped the carnage by running to a neighbour’s residence.
The police were summoned and ranks from the Mackenzie Police Station responded promptly to the scene and found Molly James lying motionless in her yard, apparently dead.
Her son Aaron James’ body was about 400 meters from their home at the corner of the public road. Both bodies bore multiple stab wounds.
Blood was splattered all over the camp in which the family resided and where James’ four-month-old baby was still sleeping on the floor with three toddler siblings.
A trail of blood leading several yards along the Linden highway, and getting thicker at the camp, told the gruesome tale of a victim running away from the attacker.
Afterwards, the suspect reportedly slept at a ‘bush corner’ before heading to his home.
Post mortems on the victims are likely to be conducted today and Rodrigues will be charged shortly after.
Kaieteur News understands that last Friday, James, who lived in a camp with her eight children, had left her home to cut wild cabbage which she sold to supplement the family’s meager income.
A 13-year-old relative tasked with washing the clothes, was doing so at a nearby creek at Mobilissa when she was allegedly accosted by the suspect and raped at knifepoint.
Despite threats that she would be killed if she reported the incident, the victim confided in Molly James.
Relatives said Ms. James then went in search of her stepbrother but failed to locate him. She subsequently reported the matter to the Amelia’s Ward Police Outpost.
James’ father-in-law, Lawrence Vevirus, said that the teen also confided in him.
“He raped this child and slash she hands…he used to live with them. She tell me that she was at the creek, and he go down there and he hold she down.”

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