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, continued on Monday, September 9, 2019.

The PI is presided over by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and a total of eight witnesses are still to testify.
Mark Grimmond, 57, the owner of the communication service and Mark’s Pool Side and Fun Park located at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was charged along with 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 Monday, Police Officer Selwyn Fernandes, who is stationed at the Lethem Police Station testified. The PI is adjourned until September 11, 2019.

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.