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Murdered teen in Hope Canal…Prime suspect ‘Satan’ found hiding in barrel
After managing to evade the cops for a little over a week, Alvin Reid, known as “Satan,” was
Alvin Reid, aka ‘Satan’
captured yesterday, hiding in a barrel in a relative’s house, near a cemetery at Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara.
Reid is the prime suspect in the murder of 14-year-old Malika Hamilton, whose body was fished out of the Hope Canal on August 12, last—one day after she left home to go and swim with the suspect and a young boy.
Initially, it was suspected that the Ann’s Grove teen had drowned, and while the Post Mortem examination showed that she died from asphyxiation due to drowning, it also revealed injuries to the throat, indicating that someone had choked her.
When news of the teen’s death broke, Reid had disappeared from the village, raising suspicions of his involvement. The teen’s grandmother, Dorrel Cambridge, alleged that Reid had claimed that he was teaching Hamilton to swim.
A police source said that the boy who had accompanied Hamilton and Reid said that the trio crossed a bridge at “Star-apple tree” area, where men go to catch birds. They then went to the backdam.
On arriving there, ‘Satan’ allegedly told the boy to stay there, since he was taking Hamilton to pick mangoes. He said Hamilton and ‘Satan’ never returned.
The child claimed that when it became dark, he asked someone to take him over the bridge and he went home.
Kaieteur News was told that ‘Satan’ went to the family’s home the next day after learning that Hamilton’s family was searching for her. He reportedly said: “Wait, that girl ain’t come home?”
Murdered: Malika Hamilton
According to Atisha Cambridge, the slain girl’s mother, ‘Satan’ claimed that after taking Hamilton by the ‘big bridge’ to swim, the teen had told him that she was going to her grandmother’s home. He also reportedly said that he had lent the girl his slippers.
Kaieteur News was told that police also have a statement from a villager, who said he took Hamilton, ‘Satan’ and the boy by boat to an area where villagers hunt for birds.
It was this same villager who spotted Hamilton’s body in the canal and alerted the police.
After a post mortem confirmed that the teen was murdered, the police started looking for Reid.
The man did not go to the police, but went to a television station two days ago and professed his innocence. He also claimed that he would surrender.
“Me aint kill nobody. The amount of allegation they got at the station for me, I had to move… This girl hay suh lef behind us and cross de canal in a boat, and after that she lef and say she going by she granmudda in Hope and me never see she back,” the suspect claimed during the interview.
He also added that, “I see she mudda and she mudda ask me if I see she daughta Malika and I said ‘yes she cross over (trench) and she say she going by she granmudda and meh never see she back’.”
The suspect was previously wanted for chopping a man on his hand and a baby to her head. He had been also fingered in a robbery at the Clonbrook Post Office, East Coast Demerara.
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