Sentencing of co-accused rescheduled to April 1

CONFESSED killer, Melroy Doris, is expected to be sentenced by Justice Brassington Reynolds on April 1 for the execution-style killing of a 19-year-old cosmetologist, Ashmini Harriram, in 2014. Earlier this month, Doris had appeared before the Demerara High Court for the capital offence, but opted to plead to the lesser count of manslaughter, having admitted that on July 10, 2014, at the Lusignan Railway Embankment, on the East Coast of Demerara, he unlawfully killed the teen.
Sentencing was initially scheduled for March 25, but was put back to April 1 to allow for a probation report to be prepared on Doris’ behalf.
The State is represented by Prosecutor Seeta Bishundial, while Doris is represented by attorney-at-law Stanley Moore.

Doris was jointly charged with Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours’, for the capital offence, but the latter has since filed a constitutional motion in the Demerara High Court, seeking a permanent stay of the case against him, and asking that he be granted bail, pending the hearing of his application.
The Guyana Chronicle had initially reported that Wayne was allegedly the ‘triggerman’, while Doris was the taxi driver who facilitated the execution.
It is also alleged that following the commission of the crime, Doris took Wayne back to the city, where the victim’s cellular phone was handed over to one of the two persons who’d allegedly contracted the duo to carry out the ‘hit’ for $2.5 million.
The two men were reportedly contracted by the hairdresser’s brother-in-law and an accomplice who wanted her dead after they suspected that she had ‘snitched’ on them. They reportedly believed that it was she who’d informed the police of a drug operation they were engaged in, resulting in the narcotics being seized.