Georgetown: Crime Chief, Senior Superintend Wendel Blanhum has confirmed that 25 year-old Hilton Oliver Junior Franklin is currently in Police custody for the murder of Doctor Colin Roach.
Arrested: Hilton Oliver Junior Franklin 
Dead: Doctor Colin Roach
He was arrested Friday morning in Corentyne Berbice. Police said he was arrested at the “back track” route in Berbice, attempting to flee to Suriname.
The Guyana Police Force said, “Acting on intelligence received, on Friday the 5th November 2021 about 05:45 hrs, investigators from the Major Crimes Unit, CID Headquarters and ranks from Region 6 conducted an operation in Berbice where the prime suspect was promptly arrested and taken into custody.”
Police investigators on Thursday recovered Dr Roach’s car, which was stolen after he was killed, while efforts continued to find the prime suspect in the crime.
The suspect reportedly worked as the bartender at the Doctor’s birthday celebration back in September.
He was reportedly identified as the prime suspect after CCTV video recordings from nearby buildings of the suspect leaving the Doctor’s office on Tuesday night was shown to some of his staffers and they recognised him.
Investigators are still questioning the two employees who live above the Doctor’s medical centre and who discovered his lifeless body.
The doctor’s vehicle, which was seen being driven away from his medical centre on the same night of his murder, was found abandoned on Wednesday night at Schoonard on the West Bank of Demerara. The license plates and other items were removed from the vehicle.
Dr. Roach was found bludgeoned to death at his medical centre on Tuesday night. A post mortem examination is to be conducted on his body today.
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