IN an emotionally-charged environment, four men were remanded to prison for the murder of Corentyne businessman, Lomenzo Jhonny called “Sham” at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court, on Wednesday morning.

The men identified as Satram Khuslay called “Steve Urkel”, 27, a cane harvester, of Lot 80 Hampshire and Billal Mc Lennon, 30, a labourer of Mora Street Swamp Section Rose Hall Town were charged with the capital offence while Navindra Narain called “Husk” and Gopaul Ramgobin, both 24, and employed as hire car drivers of Tain Village, Corentyne, Berbice were charged with accessory to murder after the fact.
The quartet were jointly charged and not required to plead when they appeared before senior Magistrate Alex Moore.

It is alleged that, on February 27, 2020, Khuslay, Mc Lennon and Daniel Mc Lennon called “Dutty” for whom a wanted bullet was issued, murdered the 49-year-old businessman while Ramgobin and Narain knowing that the trio killed Jhonny assisted them and were in receipt of the loot from the murder/robbery.

Only Narain was represented by an attorney while the others were unrepresented and appeared lost when the charges were read to them.

After the charges were read to the men and they were about to make their exit of the courtroom, a son of the deceased, unable to control his emotions, began using indecent language against the men and was briefly detained by the police then released. The senior magistrate exercised consideration and did not charge him with contempt of court.

Outside in the courtyard, the drama continued as shouts of ‘Murderer! Murderer!” from relatives of the deceased were met with expletives from the family of the accused. The police eventually managed to diffuse the situation and escorted them out into the streets while the ex-wife of Jhonny wailed uncontrollably as her sons tried to comfort her.

Jhonny, a father of three, was last seen alive on February 26 at around 19:30 hrs when he left for his usual evening jog.

His remains were discovered around 07:45hrs the following morning with his feet tied with a black lace, severe wounds to his head, injuries to his left eye and strangulation marks on his neck. Wounds were also seen on his back and bruises to the hands.

About four feet away from his body, a red and black sneakers, a pair of scissors and a piece of wood, about three feet in length were found. After committing the act, the killer/s took the key to Johnny’s home and ransacked the premises and carried away a safe.

His cellphones and an electronic tablet device were left untouched. Police subsequently found a .25 auto pistol with 28 live rounds of ammunition in a bedroom of the home.

Sleuths were able to recover some $2M on the suspects as well as the damaged safe in a trench aback the community of Williamsburg after the suspects in custody confessed. According to information reaching Guyana Chronicle, the businessman recognised two of his assailants and was battered and left to die.

Following the arrests, law enforcement officials issued a wanted bulletin for the brother of Billal, Daniel Mc Lennon, called “Dutty” of Lot 153, Third Street, Swamp Section, Rose Hall Town, who is said to have been the mastermind behind the entire plot.
He has since eluded sleuths. Anyone with information that may lead to his arrest is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers, 226-6978, 225-8196,
226-2870, 226-7065, 227-1149, 226-7065, 226-9834, 268-2298, 694-1664, 333-5564, 911 or the nearest police station.

The matter has been transferred to the Albion Magistrate’s court on April 17, 2020, where the men will make their second appearance.