C’tyne man charged with killing boy, 14, dumping body in drain

Aug 26, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

The man whom police had held as the main suspect in the murder of a 14-year-old Corentyne boy was yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison.
Twenty-six year-old Terani Goolcharran, called “Bruise Up”, of Number 60 Village, appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh in the Springlands Magistrate’s Court and was not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder. He is accused of murdering Akeem Grimmond between the 20th and 22nd of August at No 61 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
Goolcharran, who was unrepresented, was remanded to jail until September 14th when the matter will be called again in the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court for report.
Police Prosecutor Inspector Bernard Brown told the court that the accused and his alleged victim knew each other. The teen used to work with the accused and they would pick coconuts in the backlands and sell.
A few weeks ago, Grimmond’s mother stopped him from being in company with the accused, due to reports she was receiving about the accused, suggesting that he was of bad character.
Subsequently, on several occasions Goolcharran went to collect Grimmond at his home, but was chased away by the boy’s parents, a move which reportedly angered him.
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. After he left home on Saturday he did not return, which prompted his mother to make a report at the No. 62 police outpost.
Search parties were then organized and the boy’s badly decomposed body was found around 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.
A post mortem conducted by Government Pathologist Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan gave the cause of death as suffocation and compaction of mud in the airways.

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