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Friday, July 11, 2025

Another suspect in doctors kidnapping in court today

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SASCHA WILSON
1983 days ago
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The 17-year-old suspect is likely to appear in the San Fernando Magistrates Court sometime today.

The 17-year-old suspect is likely to appear in the San Fernando Magistrates Court sometime today.

GUARDIAN

The oth­er sus­pect in the kid­nap­ping of Dr. Rudrade­va Shar­ma and Dr. Prem Vi­jay Naidoo is ex­pect­ed to be charged and may face a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate, to­day.

The 17-year-old mi­nor has been in cus­tody at the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU) in South Oropouche, since be­ing dis­charged from the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, pend­ing fur­ther in­quiries.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors have been giv­en in­struc­tions by the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions to charge the teenag­er. How­ev­er, he is con­fined to a wheel­chair. Re­ports are that his moth­er has been al­lowed to help him bathe and ad­min­is­ter his med­ica­tion.

He is like­ly to ap­pear in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates Court some­time to­day.

The sus­pect sus­tained se­ri­ous in­juries when Dr Shar­ma's sports util­i­ty ve­hi­cle crashed on the high­way fol­low­ing the doc­tors’ ab­duc­tion. Dr Shar­ma and one of the sus­pects—19-year-old Akeem Ma­rine—suc­cumbed to in­juries sus­tained in the ac­ci­dent.

The oth­er sus­pect, 19-year-old An­to­nio Fran­cois, ap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates Court on Jan­u­ary 23rd charged with six of­fences, in­clud­ing the mur­ders of Dr Shar­ma and Ma­rine, two counts of rob­bery and two counts of kid­nap­ping. He was charged by WC­pl Bas­sarath.

The charges stemmed from an in­ci­dent on Jan­u­ary 15th, which oc­curred af­ter the doc­tors had fin­ished their shift at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. They re­port­ed­ly were on Rush­worth Street Ex­ten­sion in San Fer­nan­do when the three sus­pects, armed with a firearm, ac­cost­ed them.

The doc­tors were robbed and forced in­to the trunk. The sus­pects sped off in the ve­hi­cle. Up­on reach­ing near the Macaulay fly­over along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way around 1.50 am, the ve­hi­cle flipped sev­er­al times and crashed.

38-year-old Dr. Rudrade­va Shar­ma died on the scene while Akeem Ma­rine died at hos­pi­tal.

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Sto­ry by SASCHA WIL­SON


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