SIX TEENS are expected to be charged for the murder of former University of Guyana Professor Parietdeau Mars, called ‘Perry’, 75 years old, who died last Thursday night after he had been beaten and bound in his Prashad Nagar home.The teens are between the ages of 15 and 17, and they have since confessed to the murder/robbery and are expected to appear at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today.

It’s reported that on Thursday May, 12 at about 18:30hrs the professor was found in his home with his hands and feet duct-taped and injuries to his head. The house was ransacked, and a number of articles and cash were missing. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a private hospital.

According to reports the teens were known to the ‘Perry’s. The youth were arrested after neighbors observed the group leaving the retired professor’s residence on Thursday night with suitcases in a car, and subsequently his wife returned home and found his bloodied and lifeless body in the house.

Less than 24-hours later police arrested the six suspects and the recovery of a sum of cash, a laptop computer, an iPod and a PlayStation.

He was described as a very kind-hearted person who gave freely, and so people had nothing but good things to say about him, so much so that they are very upset about his brutal murder.

Mars specialised in African Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA; having studied history at the University of Guyana and Carelton University in Ottawa, Canada. He went on to work at Africana Studies at Wayne State University.

He was also credited with developing an international academic exchange project between Africana Studies, the College of Urban Labor and Metropolitan Affairs (CULMA), and the University of Guyana.