CHIEF Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for 21-year-old Ryan Bobb-Semple, who it is alleged, gruesomely murdered nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens at the Houston backlands a few weeks ago. Bobb-Semple was not required to plead to the indictable charge alleging murder when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on April 10 before Magistrate Judy Latchman.
Attorney-at-Law, Paul Fung-a-Fat respectfully asked for his client to be confined, so that he could be examined and a determination could be made as to his mental fitness to stand trial.
The mental examination was granted by the Magistrate; however Bobb-Semple will remain on remand until May 6, since investigations into the incident are still in progress.
According to reports, the suspect told investigators that he grabbed the child on April 1, took him aback of Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt and sodomised him.
While doing so, he reportedly choked the lad until he passed out. After committing the act, he reportedly slept with Gittens under a tree, but realised the following morning that the boy had died. He then severed the child’s private part before having sex with his corpse; he then dumped the boy’s body into a canal.
A post-mortem revealed that Gittens died of manual strangulation and drowning. There were also signs of sexual assault and the post-mortem also confirmed that the child’s private part was missing.