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Missing phone records stall teacher Kescia Branche’s murder probe
Charged: Matthew Munroe. Dead: Kescia Branche
Two months after a taxi driver was charged and remanded to prison for the murder of 22-year-old- teacher, Kescia Branche, the prosecution file is still incomplete. The taxi driver was yesterday further remanded to prison.
Forty-seven-year-old Matthew Munroe, of Diamond Housing Scheme, was not required to plead to the indictable charge which alleged that on November 7 at Georgetown, he murdered Kescia Branche.
Yesterday when the matter was called in Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan’s courtroom, Prosecutor Neville Jeffers told the court that the prosecution file is still incomplete citing that the phone records between the taxi driver and the now dead teacher is still not disclosed by the phone company.
The prosecutor added that they are still some outstanding statements from witnesses in the matter.
Last December, when the matter was first called the accused attorney, George Thomas, had told the court that when Branche was murdered, his client was at no time physically present in Georgetown. His cell phone, which police have, will show that he was communicating with Branche, but was nowhere near her.
On the last occasion, the prosecution told the court that the file had to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), citing that there were few points that needed to be cleared up.
Munroe was detained after returning from an overseas vacation.
He reportedly travelled “on vacation” to the US, around the same time that Branche was found unconscious in Louisa Row.
Police impounded his vehicle, which had sustained damage, and had a missing bumper.
Munroe reportedly told police that he had driven into a pothole on the East Coast of Demerara. He was reportedly unable to show police the location.
The 22-year-old Branche was found badly battered on November 5, last.
She succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital without regaining consciousness.
According to reports, her injuries appeared to be consistent with those inflicted by the impact of a vehicle. A post mortem revealed that she succumbed to brain haemorrhage, caused by blunt trauma to the head.
Munroe was instructed to make his next court appearance on February 27.
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