TWENTY-year-old Orin Rodrigues (no address given) appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, accused of murdering his step sister, 34-year-old Molly James, and her son, 15-year-old Aaron James, at Moblissa on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway on November 30 last.He was not required to plead to the capital offence, and was

remanded to prison whilst the matter was transferred to the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court for calling on January 8, 2014.

The police prosecutor, Sergeant Vernetta Pindar told the court that the late Molly James’s teenaged daughter was washing clothes at a creek at Moblissa on November 29 when the accused came up to her, placed a knife to her neck and had forced sexual intercourse with her. Molly reported the matter to the police, and Rodrigues became annoyed.

The accused returned on November 30 at midnight, when Molly and her son were sleeping, and stabbed them before making good his escape. But police, acting on information, made another visit at Moblissa on December 1, and found the accused about two and half miles away from where the incident took place.

Rodrigues was arrested and charged and he later took the police to where he had hidden the murder weapon, and also gave a confession statement.