Former cops implicated in murder of “Saga” to know fate in October

Derwin Eastman and Jamison Williams, who were charged with the murder of businessman Godfrey “Saga” Scipio while they were serving members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), will know their fates on October 16, 2020 when Magistrate Fabayo Azore will rule on the findings of a Preliminary Inquiry (PI).
They were jointly charged with Scipio’s murder, which occurred on October 12, 2017 in Georgetown. Also charged with the murder is Aubrey Bobb, a 26-year-old ex-convict of Kitty, Georgetown. He was the first to be charged and later implicated the two former Policemen in a caution statement he had given to detectives. In February 2019, Bobb was committed to stand trial for the businessman’s murder following the conclusion of a separate PI.
On October 16, 2020, the Magistrate will rule on whether there is sufficient evidence to have Eastman and Williams stand trial by a jury before a judge for the murder.

Based on reports, 64-year-old Scipio was gunned down just as he exited a popular Kitty hotel with a female companion on October 12, 2017, in the furtherance of a robbery. He later succumbed at the Woodlands Hospital.
In his statement to the Police, Bobb purported Eastman to be the mastermind behind the brazen daylight killing. He accused the former Best Cop of hiring him as the hitman and even providing weapons to facilitate the smooth execution of the plan. Eastman reportedly had everything planned out, even assuring the hitman that a lady would deliver the target to the spot while directing the killing be executed in such a way to appear like a robbery.
Notwithstanding the assurance of protection given by Eastman, reality struck when Bobb returned home the next day to find Eastman, in the company of other Police ranks, ready to arrest him. He had claimed that he was forced to make a false confession as he was intimidated by Eastman’s presence at every step of the interrogation process.