Berbice: Two suspects who allegedly confessed to sodomising and dumping the body of 13-year-old boy in the Berbice River appeared Wednesday before Magistrate Alex Moore at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court charged with murder.
Omardai Christopher, 19 and Hillary Edwards, 29, were not required to plea to the indictable offence.
Christopher was represented by Attorney Gossai while Edwards did not have legal representation. They were remanded to prison until December 08, 2017.
It is alleged that between September 17 and September 23, 2017, they murdered Leonard Archibald at Sisters Village. Reports indicate that the child was riding his bicycle along the Sisters Public Road at about 17:30hrs when he was approached by Edwards who took him into his home and molested him.
Police said they charged the duo, just days after one of the men confessed to the crime and the other one allegedly implicated himself in the act.
Late last week, investigators were led to a aback a house at Sister’s Village and were shown Archibald’s bicycle that he had been riding last week Sunday just ahead of sisters while they had been returning home to Brother’s Village from a birthday party.
Archibald’s badly decomposed body was found in between several vines by a search party that was made up of residents, family members, police and coast guardsmen.
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