Nabaclis man charged with murder of Essequibo miner

Twenty-nine-year-old Quacy Shepherd, a mechanic of Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara (ECD), on Friday appeared before Bartica Magistrate Crystal Lambert, charged for the murder of 27-year-old Noel Anthony Fredericks, a miner of Mainstay Village, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).
Shepherd was not required to plead to the indictment.
Police have reported that Fredericks went missing while working at a mining camp at Toroparu Backdam, Lower Puruni River, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
Reports are that Fredericks left his camp on April 14, 2022 at about 17:30h, and was last seen at about 3:00h the following morning in the company of a 29-year-old man.
The men were reportedly under the influence of alcohol, and were seen leaving a shop in the area on an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV). Fredericks was since not seen, and efforts to contact his friend proved futile.
Sometime after, Shepherd was arrested, and during interrogation, he confessed that he had sodomised Fredericks, after which he had beaten and strangled him to death. He had then buried Fredericks’s body in a hole that was dug by an excavator.
After confessing to the crime, Shepherd had taken detectives to the area where he had buried Fredericks, whose decomposed body was found in a shallow grave. Fredericks’s body was later properly buried.
Shepherd has been remanded to prison, and will make his next court appearance on May 20.