A 24-year-old Gafoors employee who allegedly killed his manager last week in his Herstelling, East Bank Demerara home was remanded to prison on Thursday by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.David Outar of Lot 369 Foulis, East Coast Demerara was not required to plead to the capital offence, which alleged that he murdered 55-year-old Terry Lackhan on July 21 during the course of a robbery.

Outar, who was unrepresented, told the court that he was employed at Gafoors’ Industries Limited as a laborer. Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones informed the court that the post-mortem report is still outstanding.
Magistrate McLennan remanded Outar until August 23, when he will appear before Magistrate Judy Latchman. Lackhan was a manager at Gafsoors Industries Limited ad was found dead in his wardrobe with a rope tied around his neck shortly after a male was seen exiting the home with several bags. Several bottles of tablets and photographs of his family members lay nearby, as the murderer tried to make the man’s death appear like a suicide.
His only child, Riyad Lackhan, told reporters that he was in Berbice when he received a call from a tenant who lives in the lower flat of the building where his father resided. He said the woman informed him that there was a commotion upstairs; that was around 21:00hrs.
According to the son, the tenant later informed him that someone was seen leaving the gate with several bags and he [the son] later returned a call and asked the tenant to venture upstairs and check on his father.
The woman then called and revealed that his father was found motionless on the bed next to a wardrobe. According to him, his father was in the habit of knocking down objects around the house whenever he is intoxicated and he noted that the tenant assumed that was the case that evening.
“But after she saw someone leaving with bags… that’s when she got scared,” the man’s son said.
A neighbour related that persons in the area saw someone in a three-quarter pants walking out the street after 22:00hrs on Thursday night. He said the individual’s presence seemed odd while Lackhan’s front door, which was slightly ajar, aroused further suspicion.
Lackan’s son said that his father, who had been a manager at Gafoors for several years, was not experiencing any problems.