Duo on trial for murder of agriculturalist

The trial of Paul Goriah and Donell Trapp, who are accused of fatally beating Agriculturalist Anthony Breedy back in 2016, is currently underway before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall and a mixed 12-member jury at the High Court in Demerara.

The indictment against these two defendants is that they murdered 60-year-old Breedy between March 12 and 14, 2016 during the course/furtherance of a robbery.
They have each pleaded not guilty to the joint charge.

The agriculturalist was found dead in the bottom flat of his home at Lot 67 Hill Foot, Soesdyke/Linden Highway on March 14, 2016. He had last been seen alive two days prior. His hands and feet had been bound, and his head had been bashed in.

A Police report had said the upper flat of the man’s home had been ransacked. A piece of wood and a concrete block, suspected to be the murder weapons, had been found at the scene. A post-mortem examination performed on his remains had later determined that he died as a result of asphyxia, due to manual strangulation compounded by multiple blunt traumas to the head.