Quindon Bacchus’s murder: PI to commence on Valentine’s Day next year

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Police Lance Corporal Kristoff De Nobrega for the death of Quindon Bacchus will commence on February 14, 2023, and continue the following day. The accused, 22, is being represented by Attorney-at-Law Bernard Da Silva.
Magistrate Fabayo Azore will preside over the proceedings at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court. Bacchus, 23, a father of one, of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was fatally shot to the body several times during a Police sting operation on June 10, last.
It was reported that on the day in question, ranks were conducting an intelligence-led operation in the Haslington New Scheme, ECD after receiving some information earlier in the day.
The ranks went to Bacchus’s home, where he was seen with a firearm in his possession.
He had reportedly intended to sell the illegal firearm to the ranks. The plainclothes rank, De Nobrega, who was armed, made arrangements to purchase the firearm from Bacchus.
In the process of handing over the firearm to the rank, an alarm was raised and Bacchus reportedly ran away from the ranks. A chase ensued during which Bacchus reportedly shot at the ranks, who returned fire, shooting him several times about his body.
Police said that Bacchus was picked up in a conscious state and escorted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where he was seen and examined, but subsequently died.
Police Headquarters had said that a .380 pistol with a magazine that contained one round and a
.380 spent shell and two 9mm spent shells were recovered at the scene.
The incident was investigated by the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) which had recommended that the Police rank and two of his colleagues be charged, a decision that was endorsed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC.
Meanwhile, Lance Corporal Thurston Simon and Sergeant Dameion Mc Lennon were charged with attempting to obstruct the course of justice for allegedly giving false information to investigators.
Sergeant Mc Lennon, 35, of Lot 175 ‘B’ Field, South Sophia, Greater Georgetown, who was initially remanded to prison by a Magistrate, was in August, granted $250,000 bail by a Judge.
It is unclear whether Lance Corporal Simon, 24, of Bareroot, ECD was admitted to bail.