Police Prosecutor, Mandel Moore, today made an application for the gas station bombing case to be heard via paper committal in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, as he notified the Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty that all statements of evidence have been fully disclosed.

Moore made the application as the prime suspect; 33-year-old Venezuelan national Daniel Alexander Ramirez Poedemo, along with three of his co-accused 44-year-old Alexander Bettencourt, 27-year-old Jhonny Boodram and 33-year-old Kystal LaCruz appeared before the Court virtually from the prisons.

Ramirez Poedemo and his co-accused are facing terrorism charges in connection with the bombing that claimed the life of a six-year-old girl.

A Paper Committal is a judicial process during which a Magistrate determines if there is sufficient evidence for a case to proceed to the High Court based solely on written statements and documentary evidence, without an oral hearing.

 During the last hearing, Moore had informed the Court that pieces of evidence from the deadly Mobil Gas Station bombing had been sent to India for forensic tests and the results would be available ahead of today’s hearing.

With all of the documentary evidence now before the Court, the Attorney for co-accused Jhonny Boodram, requested an opportunity to review the evidence before the Court and file a defence statement. He was given up until December 30 to do so.

Outside of the Magistrates’ Court, family and friends of Jhonny Boodram quietly picketed the Court calling for his release.

Among those on the picket line was his sister, Vanessa Boodram, who pleaded his innocence. She told News Source that her brother, who has been living in Guyana for the past nine years, worked as a taxi driver, and on the day of the bombing, he was merely working.

“I want Jhonny get justice because this boy innocence. For years he is a taxi driver…Everybody knows he innocent…He ain’t get nothing fuh do with this, nothing, nothing. He just get one call, he get hire and that is it, normal thing. He worked taxi for years,” she said.

His reputed wife Angeli Manohar said those guilty of the deadly bombing must be prosecuted, but an innocent man should not have to face the Court for something he has no knowledge of.

 “Jhonny is just a taxi driver. He get a call, he was doing he job on that day. He don’t know anything that was going on. Ah mean, how can a taxi driver know what a passenger going to do or what is them intention. Meanwhile, all we need justice for what happen on that day, they need to get the guilty ones but they must not send innocent people to prison just like that,” Manohar said.

Manohar said with Boodram on remand, he is unable to provide for his family including his one year old son.

Boodram along with his other co-accused is expected to make another Court appearance on December 30, 2025 when the terrorism case comes up for report.

Meanwhile, the other terrorism case against the two Guyanese men and their Venezuelan co-accused will come up tomorrow, December 17, in the Leonora Magistrates’ Court.

The men – 44 year-old Wayne Corriea and 51-year-old Ramesh Pramdeo along with their co-accused 33-year-old Venezuelan national, Jennifer Rodriguez are also facing a terrorism charge in connection with the October 26 bombing.

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