FOLLOWING a voir dire (trial within a trial) yesterday morning, the caution statement of the number one accused, Orwin Hinds called ‘Redman’, was admitted and tendered in court as evidence in the murder trial of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris who was murdered in her Lot 42 Robb Street home on June 30, 2011.Police witness, Mark Garnett, who was present when the caution statement was recorded, read from it, narrating the story of a plot to kill Fiedtkou-Parris after they were hired.

The statement said a .38 handgun was left in his care by a friend who was leaving Guyana for Cayenne. He then gave the gun to his brother Cleon Hinds to keep for him.

The document said three days before the ‘lady get kill’ in Robb Street, ‘Blackboy’ approached Cleon to borrow the gun and he called me after which a meeting was arranged.

The caution statement added that ‘Blackboy’ met them at Route 40 bus park where he told them that he does work for a ‘big Indian man’ and he want to kill a woman over some land problem.

The document stated that they decided to do the ‘work’ and also use the gun to do it. Afterwards we asked how much money we were going to get and ‘Blackboy’ said $1.5M for “she head”.

The statement continued: “And yall gon get paid $100,000 to rent the gun. Me tell he that I gon rent the gun when he ready. The next day ‘Blackboy’ call me directly because I gave him my cell number and we arranged another meeting at Kitty bus park between 8pm and 9pm.”

It further stated that Orwin Hinds, Cleon, ‘Dutchie’, ‘Troy’ and ‘Blackboy’ discussed the ‘work’ and a plan was hatched after another meeting in Kitty and ‘Troy’ was the driver when they went to see the place the ‘lady’ was living in Robb Street and decided that the next day they would execute the plan.

The night, at about 8pm, the group went back to the Robb Street house and the gun was given by Cleon and Orwin and ‘Dutchie’ went in the yard, up the steps and asked for the woman after encountering her brother on the stairs. She was called out and then she was shot two times by ‘Dutchie’, who was observed with the gun in his hand after Hinds was ordered to hold the man.
After that they were picked up and the next day money was collected and divided among the group.

Previously, caution statements taken from Roy Jacobs and Cleon Hinds were admitted to the trial, following a voir dire.  In both statements the accused told police of a plot to murder the elderly woman, who was involved in a legal dispute over the land where she lived.

Orin Hinds, called ‘Redman’, of Burnham Boulevard in Mocha, East Bank Demerara; Kevin October called, “Troy,” of Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara; Cleon Hinds, and Roy Jacobs called “Chippie” or “Black Boy” of Evans Street, Charlestown, are currently facing Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed jury for the murder.

The accused are being represented by Attorneys -at-Law, George Thomas, Moti Singh, Raymond Alli and Maxwell Mc Kay, respectively.

According to the indictment, on June 30, 2011, the four men murdered Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris pursuant to an arrangement whereby, money was to be passed from one person to another.

The State prosecutors are Teshanna James-Lake in association with Narissa Leander.
On the evening of June 30, 2011, two men went to Fiedtkou-Parris’s Robb Street home asking for ‘Auntie,’ a title by which she was called. They were directed up a side step and as Fiedtkou-Parris emerged from her bedroom, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot her several times to the upper part of her body.
The men then jumped into a waiting car while the injured woman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

By Michel Outridge