LAWYERS on opposite sides made their final submissions Friday at the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge surrounding the murder of orphan Raheem Abdool.
After hearing Defence Counsel Vic Puran and State Prosecutors Simone Bullen and Paula Gilford, from the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Senior Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle adjourned the pre-trial proceedings to September 3.
In the case, Nazeer Hamid, of Lot 51 Russell and Evans Street, Charlestown and Yusuf Rahaman, of Lot 84 Garnett Street, Newtown, are charged with unlawfully killing the 14-year-old boy, who was an inmate at the United Sad’r Islamic Anjuman Orphanage in Alexander Street, Kitty, also in Georgetown.
The victim’s 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.
Hamid is Chief Executive Officer of the orphanage and Manager of Rahaman’s Spare Parts, also in the city, where Rahaman is employed, as well.
The two accused were further remanded to prison at the adjournment Friday.