Trio to stand High Court trial for elderly women’s murder

The trio who reportedly strangled to death and robbed two elderly women – Constance Fraser, 89, and Phylis Caesar, 77 – in October 2017, have now been committed to stand trial in the High Court for the heinous crime.
Following the conclusion of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI), Magistrate Judy Latchman ruled that a prima facie case has been made out against the three men for them to stand trial during the sitting of the next criminal assizes.
The three Albouystown residents – Christopher Khan, also known as “Imran Khan”, 25; Steven Andrews, 26; and Phillip Sufferin, 23, were all remanded for the crime when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
It is alleged that between October 2 and October 3, 2017, at Lot 243 South Road and Albert Street, the trio murdered the two women during the course of a robbery. They were not required to plead to the capital offence and were remanded to prison until October 26, 2017.
The bodies of Fraser, known as “Mother Fraser”, and Caesar, her niece, were found in the upper flat of the home, in their respective bedrooms, lying unconscious on their beds. Caesar’s hands and legs were bound, and a piece of cloth had been stuffed in her mouth.
According to reports, Caesar had failed to report to her place of worship, as is customary, prompting several attempts to contact the duo, all of which were to no avail. A congregation member then alerted the Police, and together they ventured into the home and discovered the two women dead.
The elderly women were last seen alive while attending church two days prior to the discovery of their bodies.
Meanwhile, the autopsies conducted on the bodies of the two women proved that they died as a result of asphyxiation due to suffocation and manual strangulation, compounded by trauma to the head. The post-mortems were performed by local Pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh.