Ruling deferred in case of former cops accused of killing “Saga”

A ruling in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of businessman Godfrey “Saga” Scipio for which former Police ranks Derwin Eastman and Jamison Williams have been charged, has been deferred until November 13, 2020, before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Eastman and Williams are jointly charged for the murder of Scipio, which took place on October 12, 2017, in Georgetown. Also charged with the murder is Aubrey Bobb, a 26-year-old ex-convict of Kitty, Georgetown.
Bobb was the first to be charged and later would have implicated the two former policemen in a caution statement he gave to the police. In February 2019, Bobb was committed to stand trial at the High Court for the businessman’s murder following the conclusion of a separate Preliminary Inquiry (PI).
On November 13, 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 businessman’s killing.
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.