The Guyana Police Force on Friday night backpedaled on its official report on the murder of Kirwyn Mars known as ‘Sir Mars’ which had stated that he and his assailant stabbed each other.
Following probing questions from the News Room to the Head of the Communications Unit, Mark Ramotar, Police Headquarters was forced to issue a retraction of its statement and are now claiming that the accused, Brian Richard, did not have any injuries to his body nor was any trail of blood found at the scene of the crime.
It should be noted that this clarification was only made five days after the murder occurred and after questions were raised by this news entity.
“Relative to the initial police report issued a few hours after the alleged murder of Kirwyn Mars, called ‘Sir Mars’, the information available to the police at that early stage of the investigation was that the suspect exited the vehicle and walked away from the scene, allegedly leaving a trail of blood stains on the ground.
“However, when the suspect was arrested two days later, it was observed that he had no injuries or wounds on his body,” Friday’s statement from the Police Force noted.
The statement went on to further note that Richard cooperated with the Police and confessed to the crime which led to the murder charge; he has since been remanded to prison until June 23 when the case will call again.
The murder occurred at around 22:30 hrs at Plantation Providence, East Bank Demerara on May 7.
Photographs of Sir Mars and the suspect show them arriving and leaving the Green City Bar located at the corners of D’Urban Street and Vlissengen Road several hours before.
The family of Richard rejected the Police’s version that the man confessed. They told the News Room that the man cannot read and therefore, cannot knowingly sign a confession statement. His wife and other relatives are calling on the Police to conduct further investigations into the matter, noting that the surveillance camera from John Fernandes would show when her husband was dropped home, suggesting that he could not commit the crime because he was at home at the time.
