Taxi driver to stand trial for school teacher murder

Oct 19, 2018 News

Ten months after a taxi driver was arrested and placed before the courts for the murder of school teacher, Kescia Branche, he has been committed to stand trial in the High Court for her murder.
Branche’s battered body was discovered unconscious at Louisa Row, Georgetown, last November.
Matthew Munroe, 47, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, is accused of murdering Branche on November 7, 2017, at Georgetown.

Dead: Kescia Branche

Matthew Munroe

At the conclusion of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI), Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman, said that after going through the entirety of evidence of the prosecution witnesses which was led by Inspector, Shellon Daniels, she is of the opinion that sufficient evidence was established for Munroe to stand trial before a judge and jury.
Hence, Magistrate Latchman told Munroe that he will go on trial at the next practicable sitting of the Demerara Assizes.
Throughout the trial Munroe was represented by Attorneys-at-Law Nigel Hughes and Jed Vasconcellos.
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, Georgetown.
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 battered body of the woman was found 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.

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