POLICE are calling on persons in Ann’s Grove and contiguous communities who would have suffered at the hands of murder suspect Alvin Reid, called ‘Satan’, to come forward with information.Acting on intelligence, Police caught Reid hiding in a barrel in the Two Friends cemetery on the East Coast of Demerara at about 4:00h on Thursday.

Reid is a person of interest in connection with the death of Miss African Calabash 2014 beauty queen, 14-year-old Malika Hamilton of Lot 11 Two Friends Village. Hamilton, a second year student of Hope Secondary School, had left her home on August 8, and was last seen in the company of Reid beyond the canal at Hope. She never returned home, but her body was discovered floating in the Hope Canal by the ranger the following day. An autopsy done on her body revealed that she had been bludgeoned to her head and strangled before being thrown alive in the canal.

Commander of ‘C’ Division, Assistant Commissioner Paul Williams, told the Guyana Chronicle on Friday it is important that victims of rape and sodomy or any other violation cooperate with the police and visit the station so that an identification parade can be arranged. He said that apart from women who complained of being strangled in the Hope Cemetery, police also received reports that women were raped in the burial ground area within the Ann’s Grove/Two Friends community, where Reid was caught by police in a barrel.

Reports reaching the Guyana Chronicle are that persons have, over the years, complained of being robbed and even sodomized on the railway embankment in Two Friends/Ann’s Grove area, and Reid is a suspect in a series of robberies within that community. He has been wanted in connection with break-and-enter and larceny committed on the Clonbrook Post Office earlier this year, and the malicious wounding of Deon Daly and his infant daughter, who survived a chop to her head.

“(There are) people who (have been) raped in that same burial ground area. I’m glad if these victims come forward and we make a check. If all of them come forward and is not him, then that means we have a serial rapist out there,” Commander Williams told the Guyana Chronicle.

Reid is expected to be charged on Monday for the murder of Hamilton, the police have said.