“Mongoose” pleads guilty to brutal murder of 7-year-old

Mar 28, 2015 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Murder accused Fazal ‘Mongoose’ Mohamed, also called ‘Boy’, 23, of No. 67 Village, Corentyne,

Guilty: Fazal “Mongoose” Mohamed

Berbice has finally pleaded guilty to murdering a seven-year-old lad. This was his third trial.
Mohamed is accused of murdering Saheed ‘Buddy’ Muknauth, also called “Shiam” of Number 68 Squatting Area, Corentyne Berbice on August 20, 2012. Mohamed who was on trial for murder indicated to the court through his lawyer, Attorney at Law, Raymond Alli, that he wanted to take a certain course of action in the matter and pleaded not guilty of murder, but guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter when he appeared in the Berbice High Court on Thursday before Justice Brassington Reynolds.
The indictment was read by State Prosecutor Assistant Director of Public Prosecution Judith Gildharie-Mursalin.
Justice Reynolds then ordered that a probation report be presented on Monday when the accused is expected to return for his trial.
According to information, Mohamed who is well known to the family had allegedly taken the child from his home to buy food. He was reportedly the last person seen with the lad on the day he disappeared.
Muknauth’s body was discovered at the back of a rice mill in a pond in a clump of bushes some two days after. His body was nude, face up and in an advanced state of decomposition. An on-the-spot post mortem was done by the doctor who gave the cause of death as multiple injuries.
The matter had stirred anger among Guyanese for its very brutality and conditions under which the