Duo charged in Laing Avenue execution

Mar 04, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Twenty-four year-old Jermaine Jeffords and Howard Rambarose, 25, were yesterday jointly

Jermaine Jeffords

charged with the murder of former murder accused Orin David, called “Malik”.
Rambarose of 6 Meadow Bank, Georgetown, and Jeffords of 1015 Block X Diamond Housing Scheme, were separately charged for the capital offence previously and placed on remand.
Chief Magistrate yesterday ordered that they be further remanded and they will make their next court appearance on March 7, when they will appear before Magistrate Judy Latchman.
According to information, based upon advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions, Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones withdrew the matter and instituted that the men be jointly charged for the murder.
The charge states that on August 1 last, Rambarose and Jeffords executed former murder accused, Orin David, called “Malik” in front of his Lot 89 Laing Avenue, Georgetown home in the presence of his reputed wife and other relatives.
The 33-year-old man was killed after men came out of a car and riddled him with bullets.
According to reports, the former murder accused had confrontations several times with a man from Agricola, East Bank Demerara, whom he had bailed out of jail sometime last year. It was reported that on the day in question, David and the individual were involved in a heated argument over the monies.
According to information, the Agricola resident had refused to return the $150,000 David paid to have him released. The Agricola resident went away and came back later with four persons in two vehicles and executed David.
In February 2016, David was freed after spending five years imprisonment for the 2010 murder of Mahaica farmer, Lakhram Bishundial. Bishundial, called Mohan, was shot and killed during a robbery at Hope Turn, East Coast Demerara, as he was on his way to a nearby Ashram to make preparations for his younger brother’s wedding.
On July 12, 2015, David, who allegedly tossed a firearm in a trench during a police patrol exercise on July 9, was charged with unlawful possession of a gun.
Negus Lamaizon of 51 D’Urban Street and Samuel McIntyre are separately charged for the same offence and the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) is almost completed before Magistrate Dylon Bess in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.