Cop testifies to finding blood in car

Apr 12, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

…as PI into murder of hospital dispatcher continues

Police Sergeant, Rawle Nedd, continued testifying yesterday when the preliminary inquiry into the murder of Melissa Skeete, a former dispatcher at the Georgetown Public Hospital, continued before Magistrate Fabayo Azore.
Alan Sim, of Lot 86 Paradise, East Coast Demerara, is currently on remand for the woman’s murder which occurred on November 23, 2015 at Carmichael Street, Georgetown.
It was reported that Skeete, formerly of Lot 94 Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara was stabbed multiple times about her body by Alan Sim with whom she once shared a relationship . According to reports, the woman left work on the day in question, in Sim’s car, PRR 6841. It was reported that after the stabbing Sim kicked the injured woman out of his car on Carmichael Street, Georgetown in broad daylight.
Skeete was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by a man who saw her lying on the road in a pool of blood in the vicinity of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre.
She succumbed while receiving treatment.
Yesterday, Sergeant Nedd who is attached to the Crime Lab at the Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters (CID), Eve Leary gave testimony in relation to an examination he conducted on a motor car and finding what appeared to be blood.
Thereafter, the police witness was cross examined by Latchmie Rahamat, attorney for the murder accused and then re-examined by Police Prosecutor Stephen Telford.
This preliminary inquiry will continue on April 25.
Also scheduled to appear in court on this same day is Alan Sim Jr., the son of Alan Sim.
The murder accused’s son is accused of being an accessory to the crime.
It is alleged that between November 23 and November 25, 2015 at Georgetown Alan Sim Jr., received, comforted, maintained and relieved his father after he murdered Skeete.
Alan Sim Jr. has been released on bail.
Police Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Stephen Telford, had told the court that after Alan Sim murdered the woman he contacted his son to clean blood stains from a motorcar. He said that the man’s son subsequently collected the vehicle from Diamond, East Bank Demerara and took it to an East Coast Demerara wash bay, where he removed the blood stains and number plates.