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-will face daunting list of unsolved killings
Guyana should have its first Cold Case Unit soon.
Kaieteur News understands that work has already started on offices that will accommodate the unit. It will be located at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary.
Former Deputy Crime Chief, Senior Superintendent Hugh Jessamy, who had officially retired on October 01, 2017, was sworn in last February to head the Unit.
Senior Superintendant Jessamy joined the Guyana Police Force on July 31, 1982. He served in the Court Superintendents’ Office for several years before completing the CID Induction Course and becoming a CID Field Detective.
Retired Senior Superintendant
Hugh Jessamy
Monica Reece
Trevor Fung
As an Inspector, he served as the Divisional Detective Inspector for the Essequibo Coast, and later served as Officer-in-charge of Criminal Investigations in every Division within the Force.
He is said to have a reputation for solving a number of high-profile cases. They include the October, 2010 murder of 16-year-old Queen’s College student Neesa Gopaul; who was beaten to death, stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in a remote area up the Soesdyke/Linden Highway; the 2005 killing of boutique owner Mark Gill, whose body, with some 17 stab wounds, was found at his West Coast Demerara residence; and the murder of two children, on the West Coast of Demerara at the hands of their mother.
Under former Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, the Force’s Major Crimes Unit in particular had solved a number of cold cases. Notable among them was the murder of Babita Sarjou, whose skeletal remains were found in May, 2016, some six years after she had vanished.
But a daunting list of unsolved murders remains.
Luciana Bhagwandin
Kwame Rumel Jobronewet
Alicia Foster
The more recent ones include the 2009 disappearance and suspected murder of US citizen Kwame Rumel Jobronewet; the Trevor Rose execution; the December 2017 murder of 18-year-old Rainella Benfield, battered to death in a cemetery, and the February 23, 2014, murder of 19-year-old Patricia Young, also found dead in a cemetery, the 2008 execution of Chief Environmental Officer Alicia Foster, and the 2010 murder of trainee teacher Luciana Bhagwandin.
Older cases include the 1993 Monica Reece murder; the killing of bank employee Sheema Mangar; the February 2004 killing by robbers of 18-year-old Queen’s College student Trevor Fung; the murder of dancer Dolly Baksh and boyfriend, Tejpaul Singh in November 1979 at the Kitty seawalls; and the rape and murder of 14-year-old
Sandra Ann Stewart in December 1976.
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