‘Visitors’ remanded for assassination of Priest
Dying: George Chuck-A-Sang.
Kaieteur News – Yesterday two regular visitors to a former priest, George Chuck-A-Sang, who was murdered in December last year, made their first court appearance and were detained in prison.
The defendants, Rawle McPherson, 45, of Victoria, East Coast Demerara, and Mohanie Mohabir, 43, of Corentyne, Berbice, appeared at Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
The duo was not required to plead to the indictable charge he alleged, between Dec. 18, 2020, and Dec. 21, 2020, at St. Anglican Church Sidwell, Vlissengen Road, Lodge, Georgetown, that they murdered 82-year-old Chuck A-Sang.
The Police Prosecutor told the court that McPherson and Mohabir were known to the former priest and would visit him frequently. The court also heard that someone else was suspected of being involved in the priest’s murder.
The Chief Magistrate remanded the duo to prison and adjourned the matter until February 25, 2021.
Remanded: Rawle McPherson.
Remanded: Mohanie Mohabir.
According to reports, the well-known former Anglican priest, was found murdered at his home on Monday December 21, 2020. His partially decomposed body was found with multiple stab wounds at around 15:00 hours in his two-storey concrete house located on Vlissengen Road, Lodge, Georgetown. The house adjoins St Anglican Church Sidwell.
Kaieteur News had reported that Chuck-A-Sang’s daughter, Renata Chuck-A-Sang, a well-known humanitarian activist, told investigators she last spoke with her father by phone on Friday December 18, 2020 at about 08: 00hrs.
The following Monday morning, he decided to look at it again by calling him via WhatsApp but his phone rang out. Later that day, he decided to visit and call out to his residence but received no answer. He allegedly became anxious and decided to visit the home of the current priest, Monsell Alves, who lives in La Penitence’s North East home.
A police report further stated that the woman had told Alves that she could not contact her father and the priest took her back to Chuck-A-Sang’s home.
Together, they entered the house and made the horrific discovery. Chuck-A-Sang’s body was found in the upper apartment of his home and he was only covered in his underwear.
His body was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and an investigation into the matter was launched.
For more than a month, police investigators have been trying to contact the defendants but all attempts proved to be in vain. However, acting on information obtained recently, the police managed to apprehend McPherson and Mohabir.
The duo was arrested, cautioned and subsequently charged for murdering the former priest.