CID ranks testify as PI continues into taxi driver’s murder

As the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) continues into the murder of taxi driver Owayne Lynch, two constables attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Guyana Police Force were called to the stand before Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in a Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Constables Jermaine Richards and Sheldon Harvey, who both played roles in the investigation of Lynch’s murder explained the specifics of the roles and tendered articles recovered as evidence when they visited the murder scene on August 6, 2019, at Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Nevertheless, while a number of witnesses are still to testify, Magistrate McGusty indicated that the PI will continue on April 1, 2020, when more articles will be tendered as evidence.
Forty-eight-year-old Kwayana Fernandes of 475 Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia, who is the murder accused in the matter, was slapped with the indictment which stated that on August 6, 2019, at Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia, EBD, he murdered 42-year-old Lynch of Stevedore Housing Scheme.

This newspaper had previously reported that the body of the taxi driver attached to Swift Cabs was found in a pool of blood hours after he was hired to pick up some passengers from Sophia, Greater Georgetown.
Lynch was plying his trade at around 20:31h, when the taxi service dispatcher sent him to an area in Sophia to pick up a passenger, who was reportedly heading to Mocha.
It was reported that at around 21:45h, the taxi driver and the passenger got into an argument over payment and the passenger pulled out an ice pick from his pocket and dealt the taxi driver several stabs about his body.
The now deceased man was later seen lying motionless, with his body bearing multiple wounds and the murder weapon, an ice pick, found near the scene.
He was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was pronounced dead on arrival.