COMMISSIONER of Police, Nigel Hoppie, has refuted allegations that the $3 million earmarked to pay an informant in the Henry boys’ murder case has gone missing from the Guyana Police Force (GPF).
“The allegations of monies missing is unfounded,” the top cop told a local journalist on the sidelines of an event at the Leonora Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Pressed for more details, Commissioner Hoppie said the Police Force, following internationally established protocols, does not release information relating to informants, “because it could actually jeopardise the lives of these informants, and, by extension, their families”.

It was on November 3, 2020, that the GPF announced that it would be offering the $3 million as a reward for any information that could lead to the arrest and subsequent prosecution of the person or persons responsible for the brutal murders of teenaged cousins, Joel and Isiah Henry, whose mutilated bodies were found in the backlands of Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice, in September 2020.

It was reported that a fraction of the monies was also earmarked for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the murder of 17-year-old Haresh Singh. Singh’s death was suspected to have been a revenge killing, since one of his relatives was initially held for questioning into the Henry boys’ murder. Gladston Henry, the brother of Isaiah Henry and the cousin of Joel Henry has since been charged for Singh’s murder, along with three other persons.

On the other hand, due to the lack of sufficient evidence, at least one of the charges against the men accused of murdering Isiah Henry has been dismissed. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution has since requested the documents which were submitted in relation to the case.
Nonetheless, it was over the weekend that a local journalist reached out to the Police Public Relations Department via an official WhatsApp group seeking information about the funds.