
Three months after 31-year-old gold mining worker, Kevin Fiedkou, was abducted while at the Giftland Parking lot and later robbed of a large quantity of money, two men including a Police Officer were charged and remanded to jail over the incident.
Appearing in Court on Monday, Police Lance Corporal Delon Younge and labourer Okeemo Brumell were jointly charged with the offence of abduction with the intent to hold for ransom, contrary to the Kidnapping Act.
During their appearance before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore, the two were not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. Both men were remanded to jail until the 15th January for the continuation of the case and reassignment.
Police Lance Corporal Younge was initially charged last week with conspiracy in connection with the same matter. He was charged on the same day that the other accused, Okeemo Brumell, was arrested at a location along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
The incident took place on the 10th October at the Giftland Mall Parking lot. The victim, Kevin Fiedkou, recalled that he was about to take his vehicle to the wash bay when he was accosted by three men and forced out of his vehicle. He said the men identified themselves as Police Officers and bundled him into a waiting car.
The man explained that he was driven around the city at gunpoint and forced to reveal to the men where he lived at Providence on the East Bank of Demerara. Fiedkou said he was driven to his home and forced to hand over a quantity of money that belonged to his family’s trucking business.
He said the men eventually left, but returned the following day in an official Police car, demanding more money.
They didn’t get anything else from him, but he filed a report after they left with the Police.
The driver of the Police car has not been criminally charged in connection with the abduction, and was only slapped with a charge of misusing a Police vehicle.
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