Missing boy’s body in drain… DPP recommends murder charge

Aug 25, 2016 News

Dead: 14-year-old Akeem Grimmond

A man who reportedly confessed to his wife of killing 14-year-old Akeem Grimmond, whose body was found in a drain at Number 61 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, last Monday, two days after he went missing, will be charged with murder.
Yesterday Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Ian Amsterdam confirmed that charges will be laid against the suspect.
Kaieteur News was told that the file which was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) – for advice on the way forward – was returned to the police late yesterday. The DPP has recommended that the suspect be charged with murder. He will more than likely make his first court appearance today.
It was the suspect’s wife, who reportedly helped police to crack this case.
On Tuesday, the woman reportedly went to the police and claimed that her husband admitted to killing the lad, and also told her to “buy coffee and biscuits” for the slain boy’s wake.
Police subsequently arrested the suspect, who denied the allegation.
A post mortem conducted by Government Pathologist Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan gave the cause of death as suffocation and compaction of mud in the airways.
The findings suggested that someone had pressed the 14-year-old boy’s face-down in the drain in which he was found.
Because decomposition had set in, the pathologist was reportedly unable to detect further signs of assault.
The slain boy’s step father, Ryan Persaud said that the teen’s death is a tragedy and stressful on his pregnant wife, who is scheduled to deliver this week.
Persaud said that the suspect is a ‘junkie’ who lives a few villages away.
Grimmond, of 53 Section ‘B’ Number 61 Village, was last seen alive around 17:30 hrs last Saturday when he left his home to tend to some cows.
According to his mother, 32-year-old Parbattie Takurdyal, her son would usually tend to a villager’s cows which he would round up in the afternoons.
The grief-stricken woman stated that the lad left home as usual to go to the Number 61 backdam to collect the cows, but failed to return.
After she did not see him around 20:30 hrs she made a report at the No. 62 police outpost.
Search parties were then organized and the badly decomposed body was found around 15:00 hrs in a drain aback of a burial ground some 700 yards west of the public road in the same village.
The corpse reportedly bore a four-inch wound behind the left ear.
Grimmond was clad in the same clothes that he had left home with – a pair of green short pants and red and white vest.
Kaieteur News understands that the suspect was previously charged for murder.

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