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Mocha man’s death is a clear case of murder- Police source
A port mortem examination (PM) on the remains of 35-year-old Germing Anthony Giles, who was killed in a suspected robbery on Sunday, has shown that he died as a result of a single gunshot wound to his head.
Dead: Germing
Anthony Giles
The report has shown also, that apart from the wound to his head, there are no other injuries to suspect that the man was engaged in a fight or a struggle.
Giles, according to the PM report, was shot at close range.
The post mortem was done yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) mortuary by Government’s pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh.
Despite concerns by Giles’s siblings that his death may have been a murder orchestrated by his reputed wife, a police source has confirmed that based on their investigations so far, it is a clear case of death during a robbery.
“We have no information suggesting that it was a murder. I am not saying that we are ruling out murder, but our investigation has pointed only to robbery,” the police source said.
The Mocha, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident, who made and sold concrete blocks for a living, was shot in his house around 01:00 hr on Sunday by two armed men.
He was shot in the left eye and was pronounced dead on arrival at the GPHC, after being transferred from the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was first rushed by his reputed wife, Jillian Ollivierre.
Ollivierre explained that she and her partner were awakened by a loud bang on the door early in the morning.
She said that her partner got out of bed and opened one of the bedroom windows to see who was at the door.
The widow added that as soon as Giles opened the window, she heard a loud explosion, and witnessed him falling back on the bed, as blood started to pour from his left eye.
“Everything happened really fast. When he fall backwards, a man jump through the window and asked me where the money and gold was. He walked to the door and opened it to let in the other man,” Ollivierre recalled.
She explained that she only returned from the interior where she worked as a cook two Mondays ago.
According to the devastated woman, her purse with cash and gold was hanging by the bedroom door but the armed men did not see it.
“One of them was wearing a mask. When I looked at the other one, he tell me not to look at him…They keep asking me for money and gold and I say I don’t have,” the woman added.
She said that the entire ordeal lasted for about five minutes. When the men left, the woman said that she ran out of the house to get help. All this time, Giles was unconscious.
He died a little after 02:30 hrs at GPHC. No one has been arrested as yet.
Giles is the sixth person to be slain within the first eight days of March.
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