Two persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Haresh Singh, the 17-year-old who was killed amid violent protest that erupted in West Coast Berbice (WCB) in September 2020 following the gruesome murder of Isaiah and Joel Henry.
Murdered: Haresh Singh
Guyana Times has been informed that one of the arrested suspects has since confessed to the heinous crime.
The Major Crimes Unit within the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) made the breakthrough and initially arrested one person on Wednesday. That person provided information which led to the arrest of a second person.
When contacted, a senior Police rank told Guyana Times that the Police are on the hunt for two other persons in connection with the murder. He, nevertheless, did not divulge any other information with respect to the breakthrough.
However, relatives of the late Haresh Singh have said detectives visited their home two days ago and informed them that the investigation has intensified. They were not officially informed of the developments, but received information unofficially that investigators had arrested one person who confessed to murdering the 17-year-old.
Singh’s body was found in the backdam at Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) during a protest for justice for the Henry boys, whose mutilated bodies were found on a coconut farm at Cotton Tree.
Murdered: Joel and Isaiah Henry
It has been widely speculated that Singh was murdered in retaliation for the murder of the Henry boys. Members of Singh’s family were initially arrested as suspects in the murder of the Henry teens, but they were subsequently released.
Three persons are currently before the courts for the murder of the Henry boys. In addition, a brother of one of the boys is also before the court for killing his neighbour, whom he claimed was responsible for his brother’s death.
On September 9, 2020, Singh left his home at Number Three Village in the company of his uncles to go to the backdam to work. However, he returned home shortly after by himself to take some water to the estate. It was on his way back to the farm that he was murdered. Singh was riding a motorcycle at the time he was chopped to death.
His body was discovered in the backdam next to his motor cycle, which has also been burnt. A postmortem examination has found that Singh died as a result of a brain haemorrhage and blunt trauma to the head, compounded by compression injuries to the neck.
Following the death of the Henry boys, there was widespread protest across Guyana, demanding justice, and the Police had said they would investigate Singh’s murder with the same intensity that was being employed in relation to the murder of 16-year-old Isaiah Henry and 19-year-old Joel Henry.
