Five
teens charged
for hijacked
taxi driver murder
FIVE
of the six teenagers who were arrested, following
the brutal murder of a taxi
driver last weekend, have been
charged with the capital offence.
Christopher
Dhanraj, Azim
Khan, Vijay
Ramkumar and Kumar Shriraj, all
17 years old and a 15-year-old appeared before
Magistrate Brassington Reynolds at Vigilance Court
yesterday.
The
named quartet will be on remain in prison but the
juvenile (no address given either) is to be kept
in the lock-ups at Beterverwagting Police Station
until November 4, when the preliminary inquiry
(PI) into the charge is scheduled to begin at
Sparendaam Court, also on East Coast Demerara.
The
case for the Prosecution is that the teens
murdered Terry
Smith, 35, of Goed Fortuin, West
Bank Demerara, at Beterverwagting, on October 24.
Police
said Smith was stabbed nine times and chopped on
the neck before being dumped from his hire car at
Quamina Street, Beterverwagting, from where four
men were seen fleeing the scene.
The
victim was killed by passengers who had hired him
for a journey but hijacked his vehicle after
fatally stabbing him.