Jury empanelled for 2014 granny murder trial

Feb 13, 2018 News

MURDER ACCUSED: Kevon Alfred

Yesterday morning, at the High Court in Georgetown a mixed 12-member jury was empanelled to decide on the evidence which will be led in the trial of Kevon Alfred, who has been indicted for the March 2014 murder of Joyce Lewis, the 75-year-old woman who was found partially nude and bound in her two storey-house Christiani Street, North Ruimveldt. The trial, however, will commence tomorrow.
Appearing before Justice Navindra Singh, the accused also known as Sherwin Alfred, formerly of Crane housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara, pleaded not guilty to the charge. He will be represented by Attorney-at-Law Stanley Moore. Prosecutors Tiffini Lyken, Abigail Gibbs and Narissa Leander are representing the state.
The state will be calling a total of 13 witnesses inclusive of police ranks and civilians. Initially, Alfred had been slated to go on trial early last month. However when the case came up before Justice Singh, Alfred’s mother requested for the matter to be adjourned to a later date since she had been experiencing some financial difficulties in retaining a desired Attorney-at-Law to represent her son. The mother was afforded the adjournment.
Joyce Lewis had been living alone at her 3630 Christiani Street, North Ruimveldt home since her husband, a former Police Inspector, passed away three years prior. On the morning of March 26, 2014, a relative ventured to Lewis’ house after she failed to answer several calls made to both her cellular and landline phones. It was then that her body was discovered. According to reports, there were marks on the pensioner’s neck which suggested that she had been strangled. Her underwear was partially removed and her home was ransacked.

MURDERED: Joyce Lewis

It was believed that the perpetrator(s) gained entry into Lewis’s home by climbing through a bay window near the verandah. Police had confirmed that they found a “fresh” footprint on the window ledge.
Crime scene detectives had found a large knife wrapped in a rag in the woman’s front yard.
It was five months after she was killed that the police arrested Williams.
Reports are that Williams’ fingerprints were among several that investigators found in the slain woman’s house.
Back in February 2014, Alfred was jail for four years for having an illegal semi automatic pistol in his possession.

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