Body positively identified as ‘Satan Ambassador’

May 28, 2014 News

“This will be another unsolved murder” – relative

Relatives of the man whose body was found with a bullet wound to the chest on the Eccles Access Road, East Bank Demerara

Rawle Newton called ‘Satan Ambassador’

last Saturday night are not too optimistic that the police will do anything to solve his murder.
A close relative, who positively identified the body as that of 27-year-old Rawle Newton called ‘Satan Ambassador’, yesterday at the Lyken Funeral Parlour, told this newspaper that since the police had labeled him a criminal, she does not expect them to go after his killer.
Three days after the discovery of the body, the police in a press release yesterday said that the man whose body was found with a suspected gunshot wound at Eccles Access Road, EBD, on May 23, 2014, has been identified as Rawle Newton called “Satan Ambassador” of Agricola, EBD, and Princes Street, Georgetown.
Newton was one of the main accused in the 2010 double murder of two Bartica-based gold and diamond dealers Jainarine Raghubar and Ramdeo Deonarine.
He and another man were set free by a Bartica Magistrate last January after an almost three-year preliminary inquiry.
Minutes after identifying the body, the female relative said that Newton’s death will be added to the long and growing list of unsolved murders in Guyana.
“I can bet my life that the police will never investigate it because it is Rawle Newton, he’s not a prominent person in Guyana,” she said.
The woman told Kaieteur News that fearing for his life, Newton fled to neighbouring Venezuela almost immediately after his matter was discharged.
A wanted bulletin was subsequently issued for his arrest in connection with another robbery a few weeks later.
The relative said that she last heard from Newton sometime last week when he telephoned her from Venezuela, enquiring about his relatives.
“He would normally call and ask how everybody was doing and so on,” the woman explained.
According to the woman, she was unaware that he had returned to Guyana and it was only after she received a call from another relative who asked her to look at the Kaieteur News on Sunday morning that some anxiety began to set in.
That day, this newspaper carried a front page photograph of an unidentified man lying dead on the road.
The relative said that when she first looked at the newspaper, she did not recognize Newton, and this especially so since she still believed he was in Venezuela.

Newton’s mother (centre) being consoled outside the Lyken Funeral Parlour yesterday.

“But then relatives and friends called in to say that it appeared to be him, the body had the resemblance of him.”
This caused her to examine the photograph more keenly and she managed to identify a piece of the clothing that covered a part of the body.
“We identified the jacket, the Rocawear jacket, but still I was not too sure,” the woman said.
On Monday they went to the funeral parlour with the intention of positively identifying the body but since they were not accompanied by a police rank, they were not allowed to.
It was only yesterday that they managed to do so by way of the tattoos that covered parts of Newton’s body.
The relative was keen to point out that her brother was wrongfully labeled by the police because of the tattoos on his skin.
“Rawle has a tattoo on his arms, ‘Satan Ambassador’. Rawle never told anybody that his name was ‘Satan Ambassador’, that is the myth of the Guyana Police Force,” she stated.
Newton’s mother, who was also at the funeral parlour yesterday, was too distraught to speak with this publication, while his father who works in the interior was subsequently informed of his demise.
“He was forced to leave Guyana because of death threats since he was in prison. He confided in the family and it was useless to inform the Guyana Police Force because they are no help,” the relative said.
The woman was not afraid to disclose that she suspected that one of his associates is responsible for his murder. She believes that her brother was set up by the associate immediately after he returned to Guyana, the day before he was murdered.
According to the relative, Newton had mentioned the associate’s name and, “since in prison they always had heated altercation over the phone over some money that he owed Rawle.”
She is also basing her belief on the fact that the associate lives somewhere in the area where her brother’s body was found.
Rawle Newton had also received threats from persons who were connected to the two men he was accused of murdering.
A post mortem examination will be performed today.