| After six months on the run, a West Ruimveldt businessman, who was wanted for the murder of Linden businesswoman, Shevon Gordon, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday, charged with the woman’s murder.Stafarei HopkinsonInterestingly, he had not been captured for the murder,Cheap NFL Jerseys, but instead a spate of robberies committed at a Mahaicony Supermarket. He was also charged in relation to the robberies.The man Stafarei Hopkinson Alexander, 33, of Laing Avenue West Ruimveldt,Nike NFL Jerseys China, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and was not required to plead to the six charges.He had no legal representation.Particulars of the first charge alleged that on April 4, last, at Lot 125 One Mile Linden, Hopkinson murdered Gordon during a robbery.According to reports, a group of armed men confronted Gordon, who had just disembarked her Canter truck in front of her home. The men demanded that the woman hand over a bag she was carrying. The businesswoman was shot while struggling to maintain possession of her bag.Three men were charged back in May with Gordon’s murder. Robin Maxwell Thomas, 22, of Lot 20 West Ruimveldt Georgetown; Adoni Bowen,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, 26, of Lot 20 Blueberry Hill, Wismar,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Linden; and Anthony Primo, 29, of Lot 156 Laing Avenue,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown,Jerseys NFL Cheap, are currently on remand for the crime.Hopkinson was remanded to prison for this charge until November 25, when he will appear at the Linden Magistrate’s Court.He was accused of robbing four persons-namely Jasoda Singh, Narine Singh, businesswoman Lakeranie Singh and Natasha Bobb at gunpoint on November 4, at La Raisonable Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.The court heard that Hopkinson allegedly robbed Lakeranie Singh of one Toyota IST, $300,000 in cash,NFL Jerseys Cheap, a quantity of gold and artificial jewellery, a quantity of phone cards, among other items all totaling $4,367,300. He was also accused of robbing Narine of a Samsung phone, $US300, a wallet and $9,000 cash-total value of $184,000.It was further alleged that he robbed Bobb of two gold rings,NFL Jerseys China, $80 cash and a Nokia cell phone. And finally Hopkinson allegedly robbed Jasoda of a BLU phone, a bag and $3000 cash- a total of $19,000.The accused was further remanded to prison on the armed robbery charges. This matter was transferred to the Mahaicony Magistrate’s Court for November 18.It was reported that around 14:00hrs, last Wednesday Hopkinson was among a group of men that entered the supermarket and held Lakeranie and her employees at gunpoint. They reportedly beat the businesswoman about her body and escaped with cash, jewellery and other valuables. According to reports, the bandits appeared to be well informed about the supermarket, since they escaped with a DVR, which recorded footage from surveillance located at strategic points on the premises. The men reportedly escaped in Lakaranie’s Toyota IST, with the police in hot pursuit.They fled into a nearby backland, but were subsequently captured after fire was set to the bushes.As if these charges were not enough, Hopkinson was also accused of discharging a loaded firearm at taxi driver, Curtis Thom with intent to murder him on March 23, at Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt.This matter will be called again on December 10, in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.According to reports the 48-year-old taxi driver of Lot 138 Laing Avenue, was shot to the chest and right side shoulder by two men, one who is believed to be Hopkinson, around 1:00hrs, on the day in question.Kaieteur News understands that Thom’s shooters are known to him, and the shooting was an execution attempt on his life. |
