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The magistrate ruled that enough evidence was adduced at the preliminary inquiry (PI), over which she presided, to establish a prima facie case against the accused.
The prisoners are charged with unlawfully killing 14-year-old Abdool, who was an inmate at United Sad’r Islamic Anjuman Orphanage in Alexander Street, Kitty.
Hamid is Chief Executive Officer of the orphanage and Manager of Rahaman’s Spare Parts, where Rahaman was employed, as well.
They are alleged to have killed the lad whose partly decomposed body was found on the railway embankment at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, after he was reported missing between December 16 and 17 last year.
State Counsel Simone Bullen and Paula Gilford, from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) prosecuted at the pre-trail proceedings.
Defence Counsel Vic Puran, on hearing the ruling, made an application for all handwritten notes taken by the magistrate in the case.
Hamid, of Lot 51 Russell and Evans Street, Charlestown and Rahaman, of Lot 84 Garnett Street, Newtown, both Georgetown addresses, have been remanded to prison to await their indictment.