Annandale man acquitted of fisherman’s murder

Roy Jaglall of Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD), who was accused of the 2020 murder of Coldingen, ECD fisherman Mukesh Mangra, was on Monday unanimously found not guilty by a jury in Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall’s courtroom.
Additionally, the panel voted 10-2 to find him not guilty on the lesser charge of manslaughter.
After the verdicts were announced on Monday afternoon, Jaglall, the former murder accused, appeared relieved as the Judge informed him that he was discharged and free to leave. Jaglall was represented by Attorney-at-Law Domnick Bess.
Attorneys Rbina Christmas, Caressa Henry and Delon Fraser presented the case for the State. Jaglall had been jointly indicted with Vivekanand Ramroop, a carpenter of Lusignan, ECD, for the murder of the 23-year-old.
At his arraignment before Justice Morris-Ramlall earlier this month, co-accused Ramroop had chosen to enter a guilty plea to the capital offence. This confessed killer will be sentenced on November 9.
The lifeless body of Mangra also called “Paul”, with multiple stab wounds, was discovered along the Coldingen roadway on Saturday, January 18, 2020.
It was reported that on the night of January 18, 2020, between 19:45h and 20:30h, a painter was heading home on his bicycle when he made the gruesome discovery of Mangra’s lifeless body lying on the western side of the said road with two stab wounds to his abdomen – one to the left side and the other to the right side.
The painter immediately contacted the nearest Police station and ranks reportedly responded to the scene. According to the Police, the area was searched, and a blue-handled knife was found almost 50 feet away from the body.
Mangra’s mother had reportedly told the Police that her late son had left their home on January 11, 2020, to work at sea.
She had explained that he was slated to return home about a week later but did not show up. She said she believed he might have been killed during a robbery since he would collect money from his boss when he was off the sea.