Derek Achong

Se­nior Re­porter

derek.achong@guardian.co.tt

A 21-year-old se­cu­ri­ty guard from east Port-of-Spain has been re­mand­ed af­ter mak­ing his first court ap­pear­ance for the mur­der of Sa­van­na Dy­er.

Kib­we Wells, of Quar­ry Street, East Dry Riv­er, was de­nied bail when he ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ter Whit­ney Franklyn yes­ter­day.

Dy­er’s body was dis­cov­ered at the side of the road at Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas, on June 14. A post-mortem re­vealed that she had been shot in her head.

Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that the 21-year-old Diego Mar­tin res­i­dent had been last seen at a bar in Barataria with a group of friends hours be­fore her body was found. Sur­veil­lance footage at the bar showed her en­ter­ing a black car af­ter leav­ing the bar. There was al­so a video of her be­ing giv­en a ring by a man. Last week, a video of a man al­leged­ly con­fess­ing to her mur­der was cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that an­oth­er man was held in con­nec­tion with her mur­der but did not ap­pear in court along­side Wells, as he was sent to the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal for a men­tal health eval­u­a­tion based on his con­duct whilst in po­lice cus­tody.

On Sat­ur­day, Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Sab­ri­na Dougdeen-Jaglal re­viewed the file com­piled by homi­cide de­tec­tives and ad­vised that both men be charged. The oth­er sus­pect is ex­pect­ed to be charged and make his first court ap­pear­ance when he is re­leased from hos­pi­tal.