– fingered after allegedly selling stolen phone, police say

BRIAN ‘Big Foot’ Leitch was on Monday charged with the murder of South Central hotelier Joseph Alexander Jagdeo, after he was allegedly fingered in the selling of a stolen phone.

The 19-year-old labourer was not required to plead to the indictable offence when he appeared before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The accused who was unrepresented was remanded to prison until December 7, 2013.
Police Prosecutor, Bharrat Mangru told the court that the accused and a female companion were staying at the South Central Hotel owned by Jagdeo who discovered that his cellular phone was missing on November 13, 2013 and subsequently approached Leitch, causing him to be offended.
On November 14, the hotel’s caretaker went to clean Jagdeo’s room and found it locked. The caretaker later gained access into the room and found Jagdeo’s body underneath a bed, bound with pillow cases. During police investigations, the cellular phone was found in the possession of a woman who said she had purchased it from Leitch.
Leitch has denied killing the hotelier but reportedly confessed to tying him up and pushing him under a bed.
A post-mortem had found that Jagdeo died as a result of asphyxia due to manual strangulation.