On Tuesday, October 1, 2019, Imran Khan and Stephen Andrews appeared before Justice Sandil Kissoon and pleaded guilty to killing 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.
Following the presentation of a Probation report this morning, both Khan and Andrews were sentenced to serve life imprisonment for the crimes. Justice Kissoon, who imposed the sentences, ordered that they only become eligible for parole after serving 35 years in jail.
Initially indicted for murder, Khan and Andrews pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter thereby admitting that between October 2 and 3, 2017, they unlawfully killed Fraser and Caesar.
An apparently remorseful Khan begged the women’s family members, who were seated in court, for forgiveness. In fact, he said if he could have gone back in time, he would have done things differently.
Andrews, on the other hand, said that he is haunted by the murders and is having sleepless nights in jail. Their lawyer Keoma Griffith begged the court for leniency.
Griffith explained that his clients did not have the benefit of a father figure in their lives. He said, too, that at the time of the murders, both of his clients were unemployed.
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.
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.
