Ex-convict who confessed to murdering “Saga” gets life imprisonment

Thirty-year-old Aubrey Bobb, who pleaded guilty to murdering businessman, Godfrey Scipio also called “Saga”, who was shot outside of a city hotel during a robbery in 2017, was on Friday slapped with a life imprisonment sentence.
The sentence was handed down at the Demerara High Court by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow, who ordered that Bobb be eligible for parole after serving a minimum of 30 years.

Earlier this month, Bobb, an ex-convict of Kitty, Georgetown, was arraigned before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Demerara High Court, where he pleaded guilty to the charge.
Following his guilty plea, the confessed killer was further remanded to prison to await sentencing.
Bobb was represented by Attorney-at-Law Teriq Mohammed. The prosecution was represented by State Counsels Latifiah Elliot, Marisa Edwards, and Simran Gajraj.
It was reported that Scipio, who resided at Lot ZZ 22 D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, was shot in his abdomen just as he exited a popular Kitty, Georgetown hotel with a female companion.
He later succumbed at the Woodlands Hospital while receiving medical attention. Bobb, in a caution statement, reportedly told investigators that Corporal Eastman was the mastermind behind the brazen daylight robbery which led to murder.
He had accused Corporal Eastman of hiring him as the hitman and providing him with the gun.

Corporal Eastman reportedly had everything planned out, even assuring the hitman that a lady would deliver the target to the spot while directing that the killing be executed in such a way as to appear like a robbery gone wrong.
Notwithstanding the assurance of protection given by Corporal Eastman, reality struck when Bobb returned home the next day to find Corporal Eastman, in the company of other Police ranks, ready to arrest him.
Bobb had claimed that he was forced to confess to the crime as he was intimidated by Corporal Eastman, who was present at every step of the interrogation.