East R/veldt “vendetta” killings…

Jul 06, 2016 News

Mother, daughter found guilty of giving police false information
A mother and her daughter were yesterday found guilty of providing police with false information in relation to an East Ruimveldt murder, which occurred last August.
Melanie Garraway and her mother Charlene Bess were convicted by City Magistrate Annette Singh and each ordered to pay fines of $25,000 with an alternative of three months’ imprisonment.
The East Ruimveldt Squatting Area residents both told police that they saw when Shawn Barrow shot and killed Kellon Hinds.
Kaieteur News understands that Garraway and Bess subsequently visited the Police Complaints Authority where they gave a second statement in relation to the matter. In the statement, they denied seeing who shot Hinds.
Police Corporal Bharrat Mangru represented the prosecution and called four witnesses.
Hinds called ‘Baje” of East Ruimveldt Squatting Area, was shot by three men in his family’s yard on August 31, 2015. It was reported that Barrow had killed Hinds over a ‘vendetta’.
Barrow was arrested and charged for the murder but had the charge dismissed against him on January 29 by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
The Magistrate had dismissed the matter and granted the man his freedom on the ground that seven witnesses testified that he (Barrow) was at a Royal Castle Outlet when Hinds was murdered.
According to reports, the alleged vendetta started back in June 2004, when Hinds was robbed of a gold chain valued $1.2M and shot. Sherwyn Barrow, a relative of Shawn Barrow, was charged in relation to the shooting. The matter was subsequently dismissed after the alleged victim declined to give evidence in court.
However, in May 2015, Sherwyn Barrow was gunned down in broad daylight while sitting outside of a shop in ‘Warlock’ East Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Last August, Police had detained Kellon Hinds in relation to the murder. Hours after Hinds was released from custody gunmen walked into the yard where he was hanging out and riddled him with bullets.

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