The trial of Alvin Reid, also called “Satan”, over the murder of 14-year-old Malika Hamilton, is due to commence next Tuesday before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the Demerara High Court.
Reid, 37, who has retained defence counsel Konyo Sandiford-Holder, was arraigned on Wednesday to answer the murder indictment presented against him by the State. He denied murdering Malika Hamilton between August 8 and 9, 2016.
Dead: Malika Hamilton
The case for the prosecution will be presented by State Counsels Simran Gajraj, Muntaz Ali and Taneisha Saygon.
Reid, of Nimrod Street, Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was committed to stand trial for the murder of the teen girl in 2018. However, in 2019, he was mistakenly released from prison while awaiting trial, and was recaptured only on September 21, 2022.
Murder accused Alvin Reid
It has been reported that Hamilton and Reid, who had been known to each other, had gone for a swim in the Hope Canal on the ECD on August 8, 2016, but she was never again seen alive. Her body was subsequently found by residents of the community floating in the canal several miles away from the Hope Canal Bridge.
Hamilton, of Two Sisters Village, ECD, had left home following an argument with her father over the telephone, and had never returned home.
Reid, who had managed to evade the Police after being identified as a suspect in her murder, was eventually found hiding in a barrel in the Ann’s Grove cemetery a few days later. (G1)
