Sawmill employees now face murder charge

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Sawmill employees now face murder charge
Kaieteur News, 27 July 2007

ROSIGNOL, WEST BANK, BERBICE – The security guard attached to the M.
Osman Sawmills, Burnham Avenue, Rosignol, who was reportedly beaten by
two employees on July 20, died on Tuesday, as a result of a fractured
skull.

Nazaamudeen Khan, 56, of 202 Welcome Street , Rosignol, was on duty at
the time. The alleged assailants, Andy Adams, 19, of Rosignol Village ;
and Bastian Clato, 21, of Bent Street , Georgetown , were arrested that
morning, moments after the incident.

They appeared at the Blairmont Magistrate's Court on Monday to answer a
charge of attempted murder. Magistrate Geeta Chandan remanded the men
to prison and ordered them to return to court on August 6.

An autopsy performed on Khan, yesterday, attributed the death to the
beating.

According to a source close to the investigation, Adams and Clato will
now be charged with murder come the next court date. The source
revealed that the murder charge could not have been laid until a post
mortem examination was performed.

On the day in question, another man was celebrating his birth
anniversary with the two accused.

“The birthday man got drunk so the two of them took him to the sawmill
where he lived. This guy (Nazaamudeen Khan) was the security guard on
duty. They asked him to open the gate and he refused. The two friends
picked up two pieces of wood and started beating him,” according to an
eyewitness.

The victim fell to the ground and lost consciousness. “He was taken to
Fort Wellington Hospital where he was admitted. He was subsequently
transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital on July 23.

(Melissa Johnson)