Smiling Welder charged with murder of granny

Georgetown: Making a mockery of while being escorted to the court and gesticulating with his middle finger, 23-year-old Colin Alleyne was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared in the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court, charged with the murder of 77-year-old Montrose caretaker, Danrasie ‘Carmin’ Ganesh.Prior to being arrested for the capital offence, Alleyne worked as a welder and resided at Timehri, East Bank Demerara, and Guyhoc, Georgetown.
Alleyne, who was unrepresented in court, was not required to plead to the indictable charge read to him by Magistrate Zameena Ali. The prosecutor stated that on August 1, 2015 at Montrose in the Sparendaam Magisterial District, he murdered Carmin Ganesh.
The matter was then adjourned until September 22 for report and fixture. The court also heard that some aspects of the investigation are still ongoing.
Ganesh was found dead in the two-storey building where she had been the caretaker and the entire attack was caught on CCTV cameras in the house, showing a man continuously beating and strangling the woman, in what was first thought to be a robbery.
At the Sparendaam Police Station yesterday, the murder accused protested while he was being held in the lock-ups. He told the police ranks that he would not wear the same clothes in which he was arrested to enter the courtroom and demanded that they find him a change of clothing.
He also advised the police that his back door was open and they should go to his house and get his clothes.
The police complied after the man stripped naked in his cell and threw missiles at the ranks as they attempted to restrain him. The police subsequently brought him a long-sleeved shirt, pants, tie and even Hanes boxer shorts. He was then shackled at the angles and wrists and led into the courtroom.
Meanwhile, late yesterday evening the police released the son of the murdered woman after the 72-hour detention period expired.
However, he has to report to the police as they continue investigations into aspects of his statement over his alleged involvement in the woman’s killing.
On Saturday police ranks had staked out Alleyne’s home and he later admitted to clubbing the woman to death.
There was much outcry from sections of the public regarding the police’s slothfulness in bringing the killer to justice, even as the police had made some arrests and were following several other leads.
After the police had arrested the main suspect, they re-arrested a businessman who had been taken into in custody after the woman was killed.
The suspect claimed that he was paid by the man to kill the woman and retrieve documents pertaining to her property from her home.
Family members have since denied that the man was involved in the plot to kill the elderly woman.