The two men accused of murdering cousins, 16-year-old Isaiah and 18-year-old Joel Henry were committed to stand trial for the gruesome act that sent shockwaves along the West Coast of Berbice last year September.
Thirty-four-year-old Vinod Gopaul, called ‘Magga’, of Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, Berbice and 33-year-old Anil Sancharra, called ‘Dan Pole’ and ‘Rasta’, age 33, of D’Edward Village, WCB appeared earlier today, before Magistrate Peter Hugh at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court, where it was ruled that a sufficient case was made out against the men. They were committed to stand trial at the next convenient sitting at the Berbice Assizes.
Gopaul and Sancharra were jointly charged and remanded to prison on Friday, January 15, 2021 for the murder of teens at Cotton Tree ‘backdam’, West Coast Berbice.
The cousins, Isaiah and Joel Henry, were found murdered one day after they went to pick coconuts in the Number 3 Village backdam.
A post-mortem found that the two teenage cousins had died of haemorrhage and shock, due to multiple incised wounds. They both sustained a severed spine, along with multiple chops about the body. The killers went so far as to carve out a huge ‘X’ on Isaiah’s head, and cut open Joel’s chest.
