FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Bibi Nazeela Habiboodean and Linden Lewis, 28, appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with the murder of businessman, 76-year-old Habiboodean.

They were not required to plead to the indictable offense and were remanded to prison until June 21. The woman was represented by attorney Paul Fung-a-Fat, while Lewis was unrepresented.

It is alleged that Lewis, known as “Bullet”, was the hit-man who was hired by Bibi to kill her father on February 15, 2008. He was the owner of a gas station at Ruby, East Bank Essequibo and died at a hospital after being badly beaten in his home.

His daughter turned herself in at the Leonora police station, West Coast Demerara over a week ago, and has implicated other persons in the murder.

Lewis was recently arrested in connection with the double-murder that occurred at Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo and reportedly confessed to the brutal murder of the businessman.

In 2008, shortly after the incident, police had arrested Terry Lewton, a former employee of the late Habiboodean, and Robert Parris, a relative of the alleged hired killer, but they were released because of insufficient evidence regarding their implication.