DONALD Anthony Malcolm, 33, a Jamaican national who was arrested on Sunday for the murder of Guyanese Manu Durant, has since provided the police with an oral confession to his crime.This newspaper has been informed that the Jamaican detailed briefly to the police what led to the incident, but made it clear that he will only be documenting his statement in the presence of his attorneys at law, Latchmie Rahamat and Peter Hugh, and that should be sometime today.
This publication has also been informed that sometime today the Guyana police is expected to check with the local Interpol Office to see if Malcolm is wanted in Jamaica or any other country for any crimes.
On Saturday, the police reported that they were able to arrest the man at Eteringbang in the Cuyuni River area on Saturday as he was about to flee the country. He was promptly brought to the city where he was kept in custody.
On Friday morning Manu Durant was shot in the chest by the suspect after he, Durant, threw a glass of liquid at the suspect before whipping out his weapon and firing a shot close to the man’s ear inside the strip club on North Road.
Malcolm took a few steps back and opened fire on Durant causing him to fall to the ground. Durant was rushed to the Balwant Singh Hospital where he later died.
In the past, Durant, who was always involved in some conflict, mostly gun-related, would check himself into private hospitals, unknowing to the police, and then receive his discharge. When he was taken to the Balwant Singh Hospital on Friday, the hospital did not report the incident to the police, nor did they later inform the police when the man passed away.
Manu Durant was the person who was accused several years ago of exiting a minibus and slitting a man’s throat, but was never charged as eyewitnesses failed to come forward with their testimonies.

It was also the same Durant whose name was being called in the kidnapping of the girlfriend of one time most wanted man Rondell “Fineman” Rawlins. There were several killings which followed that abduction and which were being regarded as a retaliation by Rawlins for the disappearance of his girlfriend.

Durant was no stranger to controversies and the gun as he survived an execution attempt on his life while liming at the Wild Berry Sports Bar at Bar Street Kitty. Two men on a motorcycle reportedly approached him and while one waited, the other carried out the failed execution style killing.

By Leroy Smith