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18-month-old toddler’s murder…Uncle deemed mentally fit for PI
Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday deemed Sherwin Roberts, fit to stand a Preliminary Inquiry (PI). Roberts allegedly buried his 18-month-old niece alive over a pair of earring.
He had undergone months of being evaluated by Dr. Bhiro Harry, who is a psychiatrist, attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
This ruling comes after a psychiatric report ordered by the Magistrate was sent to the court.
Roberts, also known as ‘Big Head’, of 60 ‘A’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was not required to plead to the indictable charge which alleged that on September 1, last year, at Lot 98 North Sophia, he murdered Roshana Pilgrim. At the time, he was unemployed.
On his first court appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, the Chief Magistrate ordered that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Yesterday, when the matter was called before the Chief Magistrate, Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers who will be conducting the PI into the murder stated that the prosecution team will be calling 12 witnesses into the matter. He said that the file is completed.
Charged, Sherwin Roberts
The matter was then adjourned until January 8 for the commencement of the PI. According to reports on the day in question, Roberts allegedly tossed his niece, Pilgrim, through a window of a shack where she and her under-aged siblings resided. He buried her alive in a shallow grave, after attempting to relieve her of a pair of gold earrings.
Her body which was then covered with pieces of wood, mud and slush was pulled from the three foot deep muddy grave about an hour later.
The grave was located just below the window through which her body was flung.
The horrific series of actions took place after Roberts broke into his brother’s Lot 98 North Sophia, Georgetown home and savagely ripped a pair of gold earrings from the toddler’s ears.
The children’s father, Ron Pilgrim, who works as a maintenance worker in the day and security at night, was at the time guarding someone’s property when his children were attacked by his younger brother, whom he described as a “bandit.”
Roberts was recently released from prison. When arrested, he allegedly confessed to the police at the Prashad Nagar Police Station and stated that he was “high on weed”
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