Multi-million-dollar Bourda Post Office robbery /abduction...DPP withdraws robbery charges against defendants

Multi-million-dollar Bourda Post Office robbery /abduction…DPP withdraws robbery charges against defendants

Sep 27, 2016 News

Employees of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) have testified at the Preliminary Inquiry, (PI) of the men charged with abduction of police officers during the April 2015 robbery committed at the Bourda Post Office.
According to reports a group of men stormed a Pitbull minibus which had brought cash to the Bourda Post Office on the morning of April 1, 2015.
One of the men placed a gun to the driver’s head while another relieved the police guard of his weapon. While one of the bandits took possession of the vehicle, his accomplice forced the policeman into the back of the bus and they drove off with the cash inside.
Their accomplices are alleged to have followed behind in a white car. The bus stopped in Cemetery Road and the men in the white car pulled up alongside and cash was transferred from the bus. The bandits then abandoned the bus with the two victims.
The suspects indentified as Simeon Williams, of Lot 36 Savage Street, West La Penitence; Stravo Evans, of 169 Middle Road, La Penitence; and Oliver Franklin of 102 La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara; were later placed before the courts on April 8, last and remanded to prison for robbery.
However according to the DPP, the move to withdraw the charges was taken to facilitate a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into two counts of abduction—a more serious offence— for which the men are charged.
It is alleged that on April 1, 2015 at Regent Street, they wrongfully restrained and abducted police officer Andre July and Darwin Hinds.
Kaieteur News was told that based on the evidence led during the PI, the DPP will indict the men. The men are currently out on bail in relation to the abduction charge.
Yesterday, witnesses Darwyn Hinds and Kellon Joseph recalled their account of the incident which occurred before Magistrate Judy Latchman. The witnesses who are said to have been employed with the postal service for some time before the robbery occurred were questioned by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Vishnu Hunt.
Earlier in the matter, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) withdrew robbery under-arms charges against three men in relation to a multi-million-dollar robbery and instituted the charge of abduction.
Particulars of the first charge withdrawn, stated that on April 1, while being armed with a gun, they robbed July of one G3 rifle and 20 rounds of 7.62 ammunition, property of the Guyana Police Force.
The second charge alleged that on the same day, at Regent Street, the men robbed July of $42,522,000, property of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC). It was further alleged that on the same day at Regent Street, they robbed July of one cell phone valued $10,000.
The trio was also accused of robbing Hinds of one Pitbull minibus valued $3.5M, while they were in the company of others and armed with a gun. The minibus is the property of the GPOC.

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