“Saga” murder PI adjourned to next month

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of businessman Godfrey “Saga” Scipio was adjourned on Friday until January 8, 2021, when murder accused former police officers Derwin Eastman and Jamison Williams will lead their defence.
The two men were jointly charged for the murder of Scipio, which took place on October 12, 2017, in Kitty, Georgetown.

In November, Magistrate Fabayo Azore had ruled that a prima facie case was made out against the duo at the close of the prosecution’s case.
In response, Eastman and Williams elected to lead a defence where it is expected that they will call witnesses to testify on their behalf.
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 PI.
It was reported that 64-year-old Scipio was gunned down just as he exited a popular Kitty hotel with a female companion during 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 to be executed in such a way as 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.