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Nov 27, 2018 News
The main suspect in the brutal abduction, rape and murder of a 13-year-old boy in 2017 will have to face a judge and jury.
Hillary Edwards 29 of Kortberaadt, East Bank Berbice was charged with the crime committed on Leonard Archibald, 13, of Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice.
Edwards was arrested and charged for the abduction, rape and murder of Archibald, whose decomposed body was found on the Kortberaadt, foreshore. He was charged with the crime committed between September 17th and September 24th 2017.
The matter was heard by Magistrate Alex Moore in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court. At the conclusion of the Preliminary Inquiry, the Magistrate found that a prima facie case was made out against the accused. Edwards was unrepresented in court.
Archibald had disappeared while following his two sisters to a birthday party.
Police had arrested Edwards along with another man a day after the lad’s reported disappearance. Under intense questioning, Edwards reportedly confessed to luring the teen, sodomising him until he was unconscious, and dumping his body in the Berbice River.
Archibald’s bicycle was found five days later along the Sisters’ Village foreshore. The following day, Leonard Archibald’s partly decomposed body was discovered on the Kortberaadt shore, some two miles from his home.
Edwards had admitted to abducting the teen while he was riding along the public road.
Edwards was reportedly previously fingered in an abduction and torture of another teen some time ago. The teen was reportedly found with his mouth bound days after going missing. Residents claimed that a report was made, but “nothing was done”.
When the teen was first reported missing, neighbours had come out in their numbers and scoured the nearby abandoned houses, and trails leading to the backlands.
Obediah Nicholas Christopher called Bee Boy who was charged along with Edwards was earlier freed after the Magistrate discharged the matter against him following submissions by his attorney Mursaline Bacchus.
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