Thirty – one – year old Abishai Caesar appeared before sitting Magistrate, Rochelle Liverpool Tuesday morning, charged with the September 2012 murders of Anna Catherina liquor store owner Jennifer Persaud and her sons Afridi Bacchus, six, and Jadon Persaud, 18 months.

Caesar, a barber of Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court unrepresented and was not required to plead to the charge. He was also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm, committed against his reputed wife, to which he pleaded not guilty.

Police also charged him with threatening language, alleging that he threatened to kill her and chop her neck off. The court heard that on April 22, 2016, the man also threatened to strip the woman and beat her naked.

He initially pleaded guilty to this offense but after hearing the allegations by Police Prosecutor, Corporal Richard Harris, he denied threatening to strip or kill the woman. As such, Magistrate Liverpool entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

Corporal Harris requested that bail be denied on the summary charges, claiming that Caesar has given an address that does not exist (Tuschen Squatting Area) and if bail is granted, he might not turn up to court.

Bail was denied and Caesar was remanded to prison until May 31, 2016. The Guyana Chronicle had reported that his reputed wife, who we choose not identify, went to the police on Friday after Caesar had forced her to strip naked and parade in their yard at the crack of dawn – a threat on which he delivered to shame the woman, and her family who lived a short distance away.

After he was arrested, the woman told police to question him about the triple murder and under interrogation, he reportedly confessed to robbing the Anna Catherina woman before killing her and her two young boys.