POLICE Superintendent Rohan Singh, who discovered the lifeless body of 14-year-old orphan Raheem Abdool, testified yesterday at the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against the two men accused of the murder.
He was the penultimate witness to give evidence for the Prosecution at the pre-trial proceedings and State Counsel Simone Bullen and Paula Gilford were granted an adjournment to locate the last.
Senior Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle set July 25 for the continuation.
However, before the adjournment was taken, Defence Counsel Vic Puran made a no-case submission.
In the dock were Nazeer Hamid, of Lot 51 Russell and Evans Street, Charlestown and Yusuf Rahaman, of Lot 84 Garnett Street, Newtown, who are charged with unlawfully killing the lad between December 16 and 17 last year.
Abdool was an inmate at United Sad’r Islamic Anjuman Orphanage in Alexander Street, Kitty, another part of Georgetown, who was reported missing before his partly decomposed corpse was found on the Liliendaal railway embankment, East Coast Demerara.
Hamid is Chief Executive Officer of the orphanage and Manager of Rahaman’s Spare Parts, also in the city, where Rahaman was employed, as well.
The two remanded prisoners are alleged to have fatally beaten the boy victim.