A 12-member mixed jury on Monday, November 25, 2019, found two men guilty of the murder of security guard, John Friday, who died during the 2013 robbery committed on the Lethem Post Office.

Alvin Kissoon, formerly of Caneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara, and Calvin King, formerly of Savage Street, North East La Penitence, were found guilty of the indictment which read that, on January 18, 2013, at Lethem, they murdered Christopher John Friday in the course of or in the furtherance of a robbery.

The trial was heard before Justice Sandil Kissoon and a 12-member jury at the Demerara High Court.

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.

The two attorneys made an application to the court for a probation report to be prepared for their client before sentencing. The Judge accepted the request and deferred sentencing until December 12, 2019.

According to reports, the two accused committed the crime at the Lethem Post Office where they torched several safes and stole $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.