GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Sept 23, CMC – A 46-year-old man has been remanded into custody after he appeared in court on a charge of murdering a 25-year-old man, whose body has never been found.
Levoy Taljit was last seen driving his Toyota Raum motorcar in December 2012. The vehicle was later found abandoned days after his disappearance. Police investigators believe he was murdered and buried somewhere along the Soesdyke-Linden highway, the main route that connects the village of Soesdyke on the eastern bank of Guyana’s famed Demerara River, to the mining town of Linden.
Police have now charged Ryvan Francis with his murder and when he appeared in court was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. The Court was told that Taljit was murdered between December 23 and 27, 2102.
Francis was arrested last week, more than a year after a wanted bulletin had been issued for his arrest in connection with the murder case. He had been previously questioned about the murder after some of Taljit’s belongings were found in his possession.
In 2013, the accused had admitted to selling a phone that belonged to Taljit and hiding the dead man’s car, but he maintained at the time that he had nothing to do with the killing.
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