Ex-con charged for killing ‘Saga’

Oct 18, 2017 News

– also jailed for trafficking marijuana

MURDER ACCUSED: Aubrey Bobb

MURDERED:
Godfrey Scipio

A man, who was recently released from jail, having severed sentences for robbery under-arms, was yesterday charged with the murder of businessman Godfrey Scipio called ‘Saga’ who was shot as he was exiting a Kitty Hotel wearing gold jewellery.
Aubrey Bobb, 26, of Kitty, Georgetown, was not required to plead to the indictable charge when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Bobb, who was unrepresented by counsel, was remanded to prison until November 1.
Additionally, Bobb was jailed for three years for trafficking marijuana. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $34,000.
Scipio, of D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, was shot in the chest at around 18:00 hrs last Thursday as he was leaving a city hotel. He succumbed at the Woodlands Hospital.
Police said that the alleged killer was nabbed last Friday at his William Street, Kitty home, located a few buildings away from where the killing occurred.
Kaieteur News understands that CCTV footage of the attack helped investigators to identify and track him down. Reports are that the murder accused told detectives that he was in the area, and saw Scipio, who was wearing a gold chain, enter the hotel. At the time, the robber claimed he was armed with an ice-pick. But deciding that a gun would be more effective, he borrowed a firearm from an associate and returned to the scene. When Scipio eventually exited the hotel, the robber accosted the businessman and shot him. There is no indication that Scipio had put up a resistance.
Scipio had been selling at the Berbice car park for several years, and was known for wearing lots of gold jewellery. Police are still to recover the slain man’s gold chain or the gun the killer used.

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