Shawn
Richardson called Sherwin or ‘Jungle
Commando', who
reportedly confessed to the murder of taxi driver
Vivakanand Nandalall, appeared yesterday at the
Mahaicony Magistrate's Court to answer to the
capital charge.
Magistrate
Brassington Reynolds remanded Richardson who hails
from Paradise , East Coast Demerara to prison.
Richardson was not required to plea.
Dressed
in a coloured shirt and three-quarter pants,
Richardson appeared nervous while the charge was
being read to him.
The
police are alleging that between October 16, 2003
and March 2004, Richardson murdered Vivakanand
Nandalall.
Nandalall's
skeleton was discovered earlier this year in a
cane field aback of Bare Roots, Bachelor's
Adventure, more than five months after he was
kidnapped.
His
family had reportedly paid a substantial amount in
ransom for his release.
Police
had arrested Richardson last week for loitering
and were initially unaware that he was a murder
suspect.
This
newspaper understands that another police rank,
who had known the suspect, informed his colleagues
that Richardson was fingered in the taxi driver's
kidnapping and murder.
This
led to him being questioned and his subsequent
confession to the crime.
However
the police have not charged him with the taxi
driver's kidnapping.
Another
man, who hails from Buxton on the East Coast of
Demerara, is presently before the courts for
arranging to collect the ransom money, stemming
from the kidnapping.
Richardson,
who was not represented by counsel, is to return
to court on December 16 for a police progress
report.
