THE trial for the murder of security guard John Friday, who died during the 2013 robbery committed on the Lethem Post Office, continued on Tuesday before Justice Sandil Kissoon and a 12-member jury at the Demerara High Court.

Currently on remand for the indictment are Alvin Kissoon, formerly of Caneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara and Calvin King, formerly of Savage Street, North-East La Penitence.
The men had denied that on January 18, 2013, at Lethem, they murdered Christopher John Friday during the course of, or in furtherance of, a robbery.

The state was represented by prosecutors Abigail Gibbs and Mandel Moore, while the two defendants were represented by attorneys-at-law Adrian Thompson and Lyndon Amsterdam.

According to reports, the two accused committed the crime at the Lethem Post Office, where they torched several safes and stole the $9.8M on January 18, 2013. The men tied up Friday who was a security guard, beat him and, as a result, he died.
During the investigation, the two accused were intercepted with the money, a number of Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) phone cards, and two pay slips.
On Tuesday, Detective Police Sergeant Winter took to the witness stand and testified that during January, 2013, he was the subordinate officer in charge of crime in the Lethem division of the police force.

He explained that on January 19, 2019, relative to an alleged robbery committed on the Lethem Post Office and the murder of John Friday, he visited the crime scene.
While at the scene, the witness said that he assisted in the investigation and also went into the post office, which is housed in the same building as the Regional Democratic Council.
He explained that the interior of the post office was ransacked with opened envelopes all over and an opened safe, which had contained the missing money. Friday’s body, Winter said, was face upwards and it appeared to be “fresh.” He had also observed that the grill work, which had been secured with a padlock, was pried open from the door frame.
The trial continues Wednesday, November 6, 2019.