After being found guilty by a jury for the April 2015 murder of Hamson’s General Store owner, Farouk Ghanie, 22-year-old Kemo Evans was this afternoon handed 29 years jail sentence for the crime by Justice Sandil Kissoon. Evans, who had been on trial for about two weeks at the High Court in Demerara, had initially pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The indictment brought against him by State Prosecutors, Tuanna Hardy, Tiffini Lyken and Nafeeza Baig stated that he murdered the businessman on April 15, 2015 during the course or furtherance of a robbery. Throughout his trial, Evans was represented by lawyer, Dexter Todd. A few weeks ago, another man, Floyd Rammit, who was jointly charged with Evans for the businessman’s killing was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment after admitting to the crime.
According to reports, on April 15, 2015, the 56-year-old businessman also known as ‘Brother’, left his home and went to his place of business on Regent Street, Georgetown. Ghanie returned home around 18:00hrs on the said day. At about 20:00 hrs, Rammit and another man were seen at his home. Sometime later, the men were reportedly seen by eyewitnesses leaving the man’s home in a hurried manner.
The following day, neighbours found Ghanie’s body; there were wounds to his left side chest and cheek. The police were summoned and found that the dead man’s firearm, cell phone and other valuables were missing.
