Juice Power murder trial...Two freed of killing US-based businessman

Juice Power murder trial…Two freed of killing US-based businessman

Feb 23, 2014 News

Earlier this week, Georgetown Supreme Court Judge Navindra Singh upheld a no case submission, which led to the dismissal of a case against two men, who were charged with the murder of US-based Guyanese businessman, Ricardo Hendriques.
After five years, the accused in the matter, Junior Henry and his alleged accomplice, Baldeo Seegobin, of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, walked out of the courthouse as free men.

Ricardo Hendriques

They were represented by Attorneys-at-law, Basil Williams and Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos, who highlighted a series of inconsistencies in the evidence presented by the prosecution, which was represented by Attorneys-at-law, Dhanika Singh, and Mercedes Thompson.
At the conclusion of two weeks of a voir dire (trial within a trial), both lawyers contended that there was no evidence or legal grounds in which their clients were charged for murder.
The accused were reportedly implicated in a shooting and robbery on November 24, 2008, which led to Hendriques’s death.
Reports were that the gunmen had struck when Henriques was at Juice Power on Middle Street, purchasing water.
According to eyewitnesses, Hendriques had left to purchase lotto tickets at a nearby shop. As he was walking towards his vehicle, two men came up to him armed with guns. The gunmen shot Hendriques to the head, at a point blank range.
According to reports, the 32-year-old businessman was in the company of his father, Richard Hendriques, who told media operatives, that bandits snatched a bag containing an undisclosed sum of cash before fleeing the scene on a motorcycle. The man’s father explained that his son, a married man and father of two, was living in the US; he had only returned to Guyana for two weeks to conduct business and renew his US resident card.
Hendriques who was known locally as a wholesaler from D’Urban Street, Werk- en-Rust, was taken to the Georgetown Public hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.