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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Bail for man accused of killing elderly woman in home invasion

by

Derek Achong
140 days ago
20240904
Justice Kathy-Ann Waterman-Latchoo

Justice Kathy-Ann Waterman-Latchoo

Photo courtesy the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago.

Af­ter spend­ing a lit­tle over a year on re­mand, a 36-year-old man from Cou­va, ac­cused of mur­der­ing a 75-year-old fam­i­ly friend, has been grant­ed $1.8 mil­lion bail. 

Kel­lon Greene was charged with mur­der­ing Lutch­man Bick­ram in Au­gust, last year. He was grant­ed bail by High Court Judge Kathy-Ann Wa­ter­man-Latchoo last Fri­day. 

Bick­ram, a pen­sion­er from Cal­cut­ta No 2, Freeport, was beat­en dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Ju­ly 7, last year. 

She was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal for treat­ment but died the fol­low­ing day. 

Greene, whose par­ents were re­port­ed­ly friends with Bick­ram and who briefly lived at her home when he was a teenag­er, was charged with the crime. 

In his bail ap­pli­ca­tion, Greene’s lawyer, Kei­th Beck­les, claimed that his client, who had a clean crim­i­nal record be­fore be­ing charged, was framed by a third par­ty.

Beck­les point­ed out that Bick­ram nev­er iden­ti­fied her at­tack­er to po­lice of­fi­cers who re­spond­ed to her home and the third par­ty sub­se­quent­ly claimed that Bick­ram con­fid­ed in her be­fore her death. 

Stat­ing that the ev­i­dence against Greene is weak, Beck­les al­so not­ed that he did not match the phys­i­cal de­scrip­tion of the in­trud­er pro­vid­ed by Bick­ram. 

“It is pel­lu­cid­ly clear that some per­son(s) were look­ing for a fall guy to set up and the Ap­pli­cant’s name was called when he had ab­solute­ly noth­ing to do with the death of the de­ceased and was nowhere in the vicin­i­ty,” Beck­les said. 

“The Ap­pli­cant has ab­solute­ly no rea­son or mo­tive to hurt the de­ceased who was a good friend to his fa­ther and moth­er and was like a moth­er to him,” he added. 

Un­der the con­di­tions of his bail, Greene was or­dered to re­side at his fa­ther’s home in Cou­va, which is lo­cat­ed be­hind the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion. He was al­so or­dered to re­port to the sta­tion three times week­ly un­til his case is de­ter­mined. 

Jus­tice Wa­ter­man-Latchoo al­so or­dered George not to have any com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the wit­ness­es in the case. 

The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) was rep­re­sent­ed by Rhea Lib­ert. —Derek Achong


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