Hotel manager, employee charged with 2012 murder
Former Manager of Double Day International Hotel, Bhagnarine Bhola
Former Manager of Double Day International Hotel, Bhagnarine Bhola

ALMOST four years after Sadeek Juman’s lifeless body was found in the Double Day

 Co-accused Lealon Johnson
Co-accused Lealon Johnson

International Hotel swimming pool located at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, two persons were charged with his murder on Thursday.
The former manager of the hotel and one of his employees were jointly charged with the offence when they appeared in shackles and handcuffs before Magistrate Rushelle Liverpool at the Leonora Magistrates Court, West Coast Demerara.

Bhagnarine Bhola also known as ‘Son’, 27 and his co-accused Lealon Johnson called ‘Tallman’, 29, were not required to plead to the murder of 20-year-old Juman, whom they allegedly killed between November 18 and November 19, 2012 at the hotel.
They were remanded to prison until December 16, 2016. The matter is being prosecuted by Inspector Matthews. This newspaper understands that Juman of Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara, was beaten into a state of unconsciousness, concealed in a room, and later in the night his body was dumped in the hotel’s pool. He was clad only in swimming trunks and his cellphone and other belongings were missing.

Dead Sadeek Juman
Dead Sadeek Juman

According to information reaching this newspaper, a heated argument had ensued at the hotel after Juman arrived there with the then girlfriend of Bhola. Reports indicate that detectives who first handled the case botched the investigation and Juman’s death was ruled as a drowning. A post-mortem showed that death was due to drowning, compounded by blunt trauma to the head.
Juman had left his parent’s Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara home on November 18, 2012 to visit his grandmother at Ruby, East Bank Essequibo. He later headed to the Double Day Hotel at Tuschen.

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