The suspect appeared in the Bartica Magistrates’ Court today where the charges were read to him via zoom.
Joshua Connell is said to have murdered two women and dumped their bodies in a sandpit.
When the matter was called in the Bartica Magistrates’ Court today, before Magistrate Christel Lambert, the suspect was not required to plea to the indictable charges.
According to a police report, Connell was arrested and escorted to the Bartica Police Station where a caution statement was obtained from him, in which he stated that on the night in question he had raped the deceased, Dimas Emilia Lezama Fermin, a Venezuelan national, at her camp. He told investigators that during the process, he strangled her with his hands because she resisted, after which, he threw her body in a pit aback of the camp.
According to a police report, Connell was arrested and escorted to the Bartica Police Station where a caution statement was obtained from him, in which he stated that on the night in question he had raped the deceased, Dimas Emilia Lezama Fermin, a Venezuelan national, at her camp. He told investigators that during the process, he strangled her with his hands because she resisted, after which, he threw her body in a pit aback of the camp.
Further, the police said that during the month of May, 2020, the body of one Rosella Smith was found in a pit at 3 miles Karrau Backdam. A PME later revealed that she had died from Asphyxiation due to drowning compounded by compression injuries to the neck. The suspect was questioned in relation to this murder and admitted via caution statement to having choked the deceased and thrown her body into a pit after they had gotten into an argument over some raw gold that she allegedly stole from him.
He was remanded to prison until December, 17th, 2020.