ZAHID Mohamed, a koker watchman in the Mahaica area, was on Wednesday remanded to prison when he appeared in the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court, charged with robbery with violence committed of a female pensioner who also operates a shop in the Mahaica community.The court heard that the man had visited the establishment the woman operates and had requested to purchase cigarettes; and as the woman turned to get him the item, he forced his way into her business place, and robbed her of $5000 after he had bound and gagged her.

Mohamed is now the subject of another investigation of a more serious nature; to wit, the murder of another Mahaica female pensioner. He is still the prime suspect in that matter, and the police have indicated they are in receipt of evidence which could possibly link Mohamed to that crime.

Senior police investigators yesterday confirmed that the samples of flesh found under the fingernails of that pensioner, who was found murdered in her home on May 23, are still in Guyana, as the Force is yet to decide where to send the samples for testing.

Zahid Mohamed was picked up after robbing a pensioner over the weekend. He had a stale scratch on one of his arms, which the police suspected might have been inflicted by the woman who was killed last month, as human flesh had been found under her fingernails.