RELATIVES and friends of 17-year-old Haresh Singh, who was murdered during a series of protest last September, staged protest action, on Monday, calling for justice.

Chanting “we want justice” and “we have been waiting too long”, scores of persons gathered in front of the Office of the President on Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.

The teen’s grandfather, Inderjeet Singh told the Guyana Chronicle that it has been some six months since he lost his grandchild and the relevant authorities have not provided the family with answers.

“Well now is six months since Haresh Singh get kill in the backdam and we don’t have no justice, no police not come and tell we nothing about Haresh Singh so we come out and we protest,” Singh said.

He believes that investigators have given up on finding Haresh’s killer (s). Also speaking with this publication was Romona Balgobin, the teen’s aunt, who alleged that investigators have the family in a “run around” to get information relating to the probe.

“We have come out on the road to protest because we are not getting any feedback from anyone about Haresh Singh murder; he was a human being and we suppose to get something, somebody has to come and give we answers,” Balgobin said.

She added, “Nobody come for the last three four months and we not getting nowhere, every time they just investigating and investigating and this investigation going on and we not hearing anything.”
Haresh also known as ‘Raj’, of Lot 8, Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice was found with head injuries and chop wounds along the Number Two backdam on September 9, 2020.

According to the police, Singh had left his house on his motorcycle to visit his farm in the backdam of Number Three Village and sometime after, his relatives saw smoke emanating from the area. Upon inquiry, relatives discovered his body lying motionless, bleeding from the nose.

An autopsy revealed that the teen died from brain haemorrhage and blunt trauma to the head, compounded by compression injuries to the neck. Haresh was killed during violent protests against the brutal murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry, also of West Coast Berbice. He was related to the persons who were initially taken into custody to assist police in the investigations into the murder of the Henry boys.

While three persons were arrested and charged with the murder of the Henry teens, no one was ever arrested for Haresh’s murder. The government had facilitated a five-member team of investigators from the Caribbean Regional Security System (RSS) last year to assist the police with investigations.