The Preliminary Inquiry into the charge of murder against Nazir Hamid and Yusuf Rahaman, the two men accused of killing 14-year-old orphan Raheem Abdool continued yesterday before Senior Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
Hamid, 37, was the acting CEO of the Shaheed (Sad’r) Boys Orphanage and Rahaman, 26, called Kenneth, was Hamid’s employee and a former inmate of the institution.
At yesterday’s hearing the attorney for the accused men, Vic Puran, completed his cross-examination of the first prosecution witness, Bibi Naz Hakim, the housemother of the orphanage where Abdool had lived up to the time of his death.
According to the charges levelled against the men, they committed the capital act sometime between December 16 and December 17, last year.
When the hearing resumed yesterday Puran declined further cross-examination while Special Prosecutor for the State, Simone Bullen, who is appearing in association with Paula Gilford, completed her re-examination of the witness.
Meanwhile, Puran at the end of the hearing made an official request for the article of clothing Abdool had been wearing when his body was discovered. Bullen explained to the court that she had been approached earlier by Puran and upon inquiry she was told by police that they hadn’t the clothes in their possession. She however undertook to make further inquiries.