Prosecutor

TWO men, charged jointly with robbery under arms, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday and were remanded to prison.

Raoul Bharat, 32 and Trevor Belle, 30, of ‘B’ Field, North Sophia Squatting Area and Lot 1264 Fourteenth Field, Sophia, pleaded not guilty to the allegation that they were carjackers.

It is alleged that, on July 13, armed with an ice-pick, they robbed Linden Harris of a motorcar, a cell phone and cash, with a total value of $1,552,000.

Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, said the defendants, after forcing him out of his vehicle, stabbed the owner and threw him into a trench, leaving him to die.

According to the Prosecutor, Belle hired the virtual complainant’s taxi and, after robbing him, drove to his relatives in Berbice, who were also arrested.

Harris told the Court that, Belle took the hire car to Pike Street, Kitty, also in Georgetown, but, upon reaching there, Bharat emerged from a white car and joined his with others.

Harris said the men stabbed him, too, before throwing him into the ditch along University of Guyana (UG) Road.

Belle, in turn, said four men recruited him to drive the car to Berbice and, when he got there, he collected a $10,000 payment and left them.

He maintained that Bharat was not involved but both of them were refused bail and are to make their next Court appearance tomorrow.