Court’s verdict on murder of Berbice carpenter: “It is not going to carry away the pain or bring back my son but it make me feel a lot better” – mother

Family members of murdered Corentyne carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt are elated over the verdict arrived at by a Berbice jury at the conclusion of the 13-day trial at the Berbice Assizes on Friday.
The 12-member jury on Friday found Orlando Dickie, Radesh Motie, Diodath Datt, Harri Paul Parsram, and Niran Yacoob guilty of murdering the father of two.
The men were remanded to prison to await sentencing on December 28, and the Judge has ordered that a probation report be prepared.
Six years ago, the battered body of the 26-year-old carpenter was found along the Number 70 Village Pubic Road – a stone’s throw away from his home.
Police had initially said that it was a hit-and-run case but hours after the body was discovered the Police concluded that it was a homicide.
In fact, this publication published several stories, and the first one disclosed that there was a sign of a struggle in the drain two houses away from where Narinedatt reportedly attended a party.
A shirt was also seen at the scene along with broken pieces of a picket fence. The shirt is said to have had a resemblance to the one which the carpenter reportedly left home with.
Eventually, the men were arrested, charged, and remanded to prison. Following a lengthy Preliminary Inquiry, the men were committed to stand trial in the Berbice High Court.

However, following the 13-day trial, they were found guilty by the jury. In light of the ruling, the now dead man’s mother, Bibi Shakira Aziz, said she waited six years for justice to be served.
“I am happy about the decision made – it is not going to carry away the pain or bring back my son but it make me feel a lot better than I use to before. I feel a lot of relief and I am happy about that,” the woman told Guyana Times on Saturday – one day after the verdict.
It was revealed that on the night of October 31, 2016, Narinedatt attended a party hosted by US-based Guyanese businessman, Marcus Bisram at his home.
It was also revealed that at some point when Narinedatt left to use the washroom, Bisram followed him and allegedly began making sexual advances to him by touching his penis.
The carpenter rejected the advances by telling Bisram, “Me don’t go in for man. Me got wife and children”. With Bisram refusing to stop, Narinedatt slapped him and walked away.
It was reported that an upset Bisram walked to the front of his yard where he informed Dickie, Motie, Datt, Parsram and Yacoob, that Narinedatt had slapped him and that they must “kill um dead”.
As such, the carpenter was severely beaten with pieces of wood and his lifeless body dumped on the Number 70 Village, Corentyne, Berbice Public Road. One of the men then used his car to drive over Narinedatt’s body to make it appear like a vehicular accident.
Meanwhile, Bisram was extradited to Guyana to face a charge for the carpenter’s killing. However, at the end of two separate Preliminary Inquiries (PI), he was discharged/freed, because of insufficient evidence. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, would thereafter step in, directing the Magistrate to commit Bisram to face a trial at the High Court.
The businessman challenged the DPP’s directive, which was subsequently quashed by a High Court Judge, who also barred Ali-Hack from proffering a murder indictment against him.
An appeal against the Judge’s decision was filed by the DPP to the Court of Appeal of Guyana, which overturned the lower court’s decision, ordering that Bisram be arrested and tried.
But Bisram then challenged the local Appeal Court’s ruling at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
In the end, the apex court restored the High Court Judge’s decision, but ruled that nothing is preventing the DPP from having Bisram re-arrested and charged again if fresh evidence is obtained linking him to the murder.