2 charged with murder of Triumph teen

Less than a week after young Devanand Sanichar, 13, was beaten to death, two men will be making a court appearance today after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) advised that they be charged with the capital offence.
The police had initially arrested three persons; however, Crime Chief (Ag) Hugh Jessemy told Guyana Times on Thursday that detectives had approached the DPP and were advised to institute charges against two suspects.
“So two persons will be going to court for the boy’s murder,” he stated.
The two accused have been identified as Kevin Sahai, 20, and Raymond Wong, 27, both of the Triumph, East Coast Demerara.
Sanichar of Lot 83-84 Plantain Walk West Half, Beterverwagting, ECD, was at a wedding with his family a few houses from his home when the incident occurred sometime around 23:30h on Sunday.
It was reported that the teenager got into a fight with a group of men over a young lady and left the wedding house. He later returned with a cutlass when another argument ensued, during which one of the men relived him of the weapon and dealt him a chop to the head. Sanichar reportedly fell and was severely beaten with pieces of wood by several persons.
The post-mortem examination on Sanichar’s body will be conducted today.
On Monday, when this newspaper visited the home of the dead youth, his distraught mother Sukhdai Sanichar related that the prime suspect (Kevin) was a friend of her now dead son.
“He come and call for meh son on Sunday…he did drunk, drunk…so I tell he that meh son wasn’t at home. We went at the wedding house and the same boy come to meh son and tell he to reach he outside,” the mother stated.
She noted that her son left the wedding house and after a short while, she recalled her brother-in-law waving to her from the gate and she suspected something was amiss. The woman said as she reached the gate, she was told that her son was lying on the roadway in a pool of blood.
In tears, Sanichar recounted that she ran to the area where her son was lying and attempted to hold him but was told that he was dead and she could not touch the body. “He had a chop pon he head and like a nail mark to he neck… blood went all ova,” she recalled.
However, the family later received information that another friend of the now deadboy was among the gang that beat and killed him.