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Barber charged with Anna Catherina triple murder
Almost four years after the horrific attack, 31-year-old Abishai Caesar was yesterday charged with
Abishai Caesar
the September 2012 murders of 41-year-old Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara businesswoman Jennifer Persaud, and her sons 6-year-old Afridi Bacchus and 18-month-old Jadon Persaud, when he appeared before Magistrate Rushelle Liverpool at the Leonora Magistrates Court.
The case has unsettled the village ever since lurid details of the crime resurfaced through the media on Sunday last, when Caesar, a former neighbour of the victims, was detained as a suspect.
Caesar, a barber, of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, was charged with three counts of murder. Particulars of the charges state that between September 21st and 22nd 2012 in the village of Anna Catherina, he murdered Jennifer Persaud called “Jenny” and her two children Afridi Bacchus and Jadon Persaud.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charges.
Police investigations have also widened to include that Caesar a father of one in 2012 engaged in the sexual penetration of a girl under 15 years old.
He was not required to plead to the rape allegation.
He is also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm committed against his reputed wife on April 22nd at Anna Catherina to which he denied. It is further alleged that on the same day, at the same location, he threatened to kill the woman and stripped her naked and beat her.
However Caesar, who first pleaded guilty to the offence, denied the allegation. The magistrate then recorded a not guilty plea on his behalf because he disagreed with the prosecutor‘s facts.
Prosecutor Corporal Richard Harris objected to bail on the two additional charges based on the fact that he did not provide the court with a fixed place of abode.
Caesar was remanded to prison and will appear again on May 31.
Family members of the deceased who were present at court expressed some satisfaction that the police investigations have put an end to the dark mystery that remained for four years.
Caesar was never arrested in 2012, though persons were charged. Maria Persaud, who is the mother of Caesar’s child, but is not in a relationship with him, said that he was never abusive towards her, and “he is a nice loving person”
However, the father of Afridi Bacchus expressed relief about the police being able to bring his son’s alleged killer to face the courts.
“It was worth the wait, but this is no sort of justice for what he did to my son” the father declared “Afridi would have been 10 years old today,” he said with a sorrowful look in his eyes.
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