AN expressionless Rajesh Guyadeen called “BrucksMan” who murdered a man back in 2003, was on Friday sentenced to a total of 70 years’ imprisonment by Justice Navindra Singh in the Georgetown High Court after a 12-member jury found him guilty.

Initially, the judge had sentenced the accused to 60 years in jail but added 10 more for premeditation.
Justice Singh had told the accused: “You got to tell me something better than you did earlier,” since he had ambushed the deceased. Guyadeen told the court that he was sorry the deceased, Nandram Manohar called “Nando” had died.

State Prosecutor, Abigail Gibbs said that the evidence which was clear was accepted by the 12-member jury. She added that the deceased was only 26 years old at the time when the accused snatched his life. The accused showed no remorse, the prosecutor noted,and after committing the act had fled the country and returned 11 years after.Gibbs asked the court to consider those factors and impose the maximum sentence.

According to the state’s case, on May 3, 2003 at Unity, Lancaster, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, the deceased, a farmer, was in the company of four other men walking home at around midnight from a wedding house.

The group was walking because Manohar’s bicycle wheel had a puncture, and it was when he was heading into his yard he shouted out to his friends that “BrucksMan just stab me,” before he collapsed.

The deceased died before he received medical attention and was pronounced dead on arrival at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
A post-mortem report gave the cause of death as perforation of the aorta and left kidney due to a stab wound.

The police subsequently went to the home of an uncle where the accused was staying, but he ran away to Suriname and returned to Guyana in 2014 and was later arrested.
The accused reportedly confessed to a villager that he “juk Nando”.

The State was represented by Abigail Gibbs in association with Narissa Leander while the defence attorney was Maxwell McKay in association with Sherise Dowding.
The Prosecution presented eight witnesses while the defence had two, one of whom gave his testimony via Skype from Paramaribo, Suriname on Thursday.