THE preliminary inquiry (PI) involving the owner of Mark Interior Communication Inc. and an alleged hit-man, who are charged for conspiring to execute a Lethem businessman, is expected to commence on July 24, 2019.

The PI will be presided over by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Mark Grimmond, 57, the owner of the communication service, along with Mark’s Pool Side and Fun Park located at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was charged alongside Chatterpaul Singh called Kevin, 36.

The men are currently on remand for the charge which alleged that, between April 1, 2018, and June 7, 2019, at Georgetown, they conspired with persons known and unknown to murder Dwayne Grant.

On Thursday, July 11, 2019, Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers handed over statements, telephone records and photographs to the court. The Chief Magistrate set July 24, 2019, for the commencement of the PI.

According to reports, Grant, is a businessman who lives in Lethem and had received a ‘tip-off’ that Grimmond had hired someone to execute him.

The businessman became fearful for his life and reported the matter to the police, who went to a Hotel in Lethem and found Singh with an illegal firearm in his possession.
The police is contending that Singh, while in custody, told the investigator that he was hired by Grimmond to kill Grant. Grimmond was arrested and the police found telephone records between the men.