Sales assistant charged with businesswoman’s murder

A 23-year-old man has ap­peared be­fore the High Court charged with the mur­der of 44-year-old Tri­cia Mara­jh.

Neli­jah Bain, a sales as­sis­tant of Ari­ma, al­so faces charges of pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

He ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Re­han­na Ho­sein in the North Crim­i­nal Court on Thurs­day. A suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing has been set for Oc­to­ber 12.

Mara­jh, of St Joseph, was shot and killed on April 8.

Po­lice said she was lured out­side her River­side Road home in Curepe af­ter re­ceiv­ing a call from some­one claim­ing to be sell­ing a ve­hi­cle. When she stepped out­side, a gun­man ex­it­ed a car and opened fire be­fore flee­ing the scene.

A rel­a­tive who heard the gun­shots found her wound­ed and took her to hos­pi­tal, where she lat­er died.

Bain was ar­rest­ed on April 16 in Ari­ma by of­fi­cers of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment and lat­er charged fol­low­ing ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was car­ried out by the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Two.