By Michel Outridge

AFTER hours of waiting yesterday, the four accused fingered in the Robb Street ‘Granny’ murder trial were all found guilty by the 12-member jury. The unanimous decision was announced in the High Court before Justice Navindra Singh.

Orwin Hinds, Kevin October, Cleon Hinds and Roy Jacobs, were each sentenced to 81 years’ imprisonment for the murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris.

Justice Navindra Singh handed down the sentence with a base of 60 years – plus 10 years for pre-meditation; 10 years for murder for pay; plus five years for the use of a firearm and minus four years for the time served on remand. The four will be eligible for parole after serving 45 years.

However, Defence Counsel George Thomas and Moti Singh yesterday indicated that they will file appeals for their clients Orwin Hinds and Kevin October.

Justice Singh, before he handed down the sentence, told the court that the sentence would be the same for the four men since there was a plan and it was executed by the quartet.

Meanwhile, before the sentences were passed yesterday afternoon in a packed court room, when asked if they had anything to say Orwin Hinds said he was innocent of the charge, since he did not know anything about the murder.

Kevin October told the court that he was also innocent and if they had checked the station diary at the Brickdam Police Station on June 30, 2011 when the elderly woman was killed,it would have been seen that he was in police custody and was released after. He added that it was a trap by the police and the prosecution to frame him for the murder of which he knew nothing.

Cleon Hinds said he too was innocent of the charge before him and “is just so he get a murder charge because I does work car and I don’t know anything about no murder.”

Roy Jacobs said, “I am innocent of this charge because I do not know anything of the murder.”

However, after he was sentenced he told Justice Navindra Singh that “Your day will come, judgment day will come for you and you have children too.”

Before the sentences were handed down, defence lawyers George Thomas, Moti Singh and Raymond Alli all asked the court to be lenient with their clients.

Thomas said it was Orwin Hinds’s birthday and it was his first offence.
After the sentences were handed down, relatives of Kevin October were reduced to tears. They exited the court room and wailed loudly before the quartet was led away to jail.

Orin Hinds, called ‘Redman’, of Burnham Boulevard, 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, were on trial before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12-member jury for the murder.

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