‘Rasta’ charged with Guayaguayare murder

A 49-year-old Guayagua­yare man has been charged with mur­der in con­nec­tion with the chop­ping death of a 43-year-old res­i­dent near his home last week.

Andy Guer­ra, al­so known as “Ras­ta”, of Fish­ing Port, New­lands, Guayagua­yare, was charged on Tues­day fol­low­ing ad­vice from Act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions An­ju Bho­la.

The vic­tim, Sel­wyn Sood­een, al­so called “Rat­ty”, lived at Fish­ing Port and was killed on Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 18.

Po­lice said Sood­een was chopped to death near his home.

A man from the area was ar­rest­ed the fol­low­ing day by PC Ma­habir of the Ma­yaro Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment in con­nec­tion with the killing.

Fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions, ad­vice was re­ceived from Bho­la on Mon­day, Oc­to­ber 26, to charge Guer­ra with mur­der.

Guer­ra was sub­se­quent­ly charged by PC Wren of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion II.

He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the Court.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was su­per­vised by Act­ing As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dents Vic­tor and Ram­jag, In­spec­tors Desuze and Nan­hoo, Sergeants Rad­haykissoon and Gor­don, and PC Subi­ah of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion II.

The killing oc­curred in the coastal com­mu­ni­ty of Guayagua­yare, in south-east Trinidad.