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Police constable testifies in Kescia Branche murder PI

Jun 21, 2018 News

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of secondary school teacher, Kescia Branche continued yesterday, before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Forty-seven-year-old Matthew Munroe, a taxi driver, of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was not required to plead to the indictable charge which alleged that on November 7, last, at Georgetown, he murdered Branche.
When the PI continued yesterday, Police Constable Randy Fraser took to the witness box, from where he detailed his role in the investigations.
Fraser told the court that he is presently attached to Impact Base at the Brickdam Police Station.
At the conclusion of his evidence, he was subjected to cross examination by Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes, who is representing the murder accused.
Branche, a mother of one, who resided in Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown, was last seen on November 4, 2017, when she left for a night out with friends.
According to information, 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 at Louisa Row, in close proximity to Memorial Gardens.
The battered body of the 22-year-old woman was found unconscious alongside the road and was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
She succumbed there without regaining consciousness.
Police impounded Munroe’s vehicle, which had sustained damage, and had a missing bumper. Munroe reportedly told police that he had driven into a pothole somewhere along the East Coast Demerara. He however was reportedly unable to show police the location.
According to reports, Branche’s 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.

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