Police seeking advice for suspects in BV teen’s murder

Wedding house brawl

Investigators probing the death of 13-year-old Devanand Sanichar, who was chopped and beaten to death on Sunday, are seeking advice on the way forward with the three suspects.
Sanichar of Lot 83-84 Plantain Walk West Half, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was at a wedding with his family a few houses away from his home when the incident occurred sometime around 23:30h.
It was reported that the teenager got into a fight with a group of men over a young lady and left the wedding house, only to return with a cutlass. An argument ensued resulting in one of the men relieving him of the cutlass and dealing him a chop to his head.

Sanichar reportedly fell to the ground and was severely beaten with pieces of wood by several persons. The Police arrested three suspects, who were taken in for questioning.
Acting Crime Chief Hugh Jessemy, told Guyana Times on Tuesday that the men are still in custody and Police are seeking advice on who to institute charges against for the teenager’s death.
“By tomorrow (Thursday) we will know who should be charged and taken to court,” the Deputy Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) stated.
On Monday, when this newspaper visited the home of the dead teenager, his distraught mother, Sukhdhai Sanichar, told this publication that the prime suspect was a friend of her now dead son.
“He come and call for meh son on Sunday… he did drunk, drunk… so I tell he that meh son wasn’t at home. We went at the wedding house and the same boy come to meh son and tell he to reach he outside,” the woman stated.
She noted that her son left the wedding house and after a short time, she recalled her brother-in-law waving to her from the gate and she suspected something was amiss. The woman said as she reached the gate, she was told that her son was lying on the roadway in a pool of blood.
In tears, Sanichar recounted that she ran to the area where her son was lying and attempted to hold him but was told that he was dead and she could not touch the body. “He had a chop to he head and like a nail mark to he neck… blood went all ova,” she recalled.
However, the family later received information that another friend of the now dead teen was among the gang that beat and killed him. That friend has since been taken into custody. He also led the Police to the others who were involved in the incident.