Imran Khan and Stephen Andrews this morning pleaded guilty to the lesser offence, manslaughter, admitting that between October 2 and 3, 2017, they killed 89-year-old Constance Fraser, and 77-year-old Phyllis Caesar, whose bound and gagged bodies were found in their Lot 243 Albert Street and South Road, Georgetown residence.
The two men, accompanied by their lawyers, appeared before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the Demerara High Court this morning.
Both Khan, of Independence Boulevard, and Andrews of Albouystown, Georgetown were further remanded to prison and are to be sentenced on Thursday, October 24, 2019, following the presentation of probations reports.
According to State Prosecutor Abigail Gibbs, the two elderly women were at home when Khan and Andrews intruded. While there, Prosecutor Gibbs said that the men ransacked the women’s home in search of cash and other valuables. The prosecutor told the court that Khan and Andrews bound the women’s feet with pants and placed pieces of cloth in their mouths before proceeding to strangle them.
Fraser and Caesar, of Lot 243 South Road and Albert Street, Georgetown, were discovered lifeless in their home by members of their church, the South Road Full Gospel Assembly after efforts to contact them were futile.
Post mortem reports revealed that the women both died as a result of asphyxiation, due to suffocation and manual strangulation, compounded by trauma to the head.
Khan and Andrews accepted the prosecutions facts and indicated that they were pleading guilty after receiving advice from their counsel. Another man, Phillip Suffrien of Hunter Street, Albouystown is also charged for the murders of the elderly women. He is yet to be arraigned before a judge.
