THREE young men, including two brothers who were charged and remanded to prison on Wednesday, are likely to be recalled from the jailhouse to assist police in their investigation into the murder of newspaper vendor, Sham Mannilall.

Mannilall of Essequibo Coast, Region Two, was killed in a home invasion.

Guyana Chronicle was told that the police may have inadvertently charged the three wrongfully with murder while the persons who actually committed the act are still roaming the community.

Police investigators from Essequibo had initially arrested four persons for the crime based on information they received.

However, force headquarters took a decision to send ranks from the Major Crimes Investigation Unit to Essequibo. Once there, the MIC ranks conducted preliminary investigations and then took a decision to release the four persons who were initially picked up and then arrested three persons who they later sought and got legal advice to charge.

The three men appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for the murder of the vendor during a robbery. They were remanded to prison until January 29, 2020.

Police subsequently learnt that on the night of the murder, one of the men who was arrested on Friday, went to his friend to borrow a helmet but never returned same.

The bandits who invaded the home of Mannilall concealed their identities by wearing helmets.

This publication was told that when the young man requested his helmet from the young man he lent it to, the man told him that he returned the helmet by placing same on the fence.

That prompted the young man to make a police report about the helmet. The police then questioned him about the helmet and when he was shown a helmet which was lodged at the station, he then identified the helmet to be his.

The detectives then went and rearrested the four persons who were picked up on the night of the crime and they confessed to the crime.

The Guyana Chronicle was told that at the level of the prisons, no production order has yet been made to have the three young men brought out of prison to assist the police in their probe.

While the persons who were charged did not carry out the actual act of murder, they nevertheless played various roles such as planning and acting as lookouts as the robbery was being carried out.

From all indications, one of the men who appeared in court on Wednesday, was celebrating a nine-day event for his new-born child at his home and it was reportedly there that the blueprint on how the robbery was going to be done was planned.

Police sources indicated that the daughter of the deceased, at one time, dated one of the suspects of the crime but that relationship fell through after her now dead father became involved and had a physical confrontation with the young man.

During that relationship, the young lady reportedly stole money from her father and would give it to the young man. Her father, at the time, was operating a poultry business which is now closed.

Recently, the young man and the young woman again began communicating and it is reported that she reportedly told him of her father’s plan to restart the poultry business.

She also reportedly told the young man that her father secured a loan from the bank which was more than $1M for the business.