BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AFTER deliberating for a little over two hours, the jury at yesterday’s (Jun. 24) High Court sitting arrived at a guilty verdict for Denver ‘Backa’ Fyfield in relation to the 2010 murder of Hendricks ‘Jahdeo’ Roberts.
The seven-woman-five-man jury came to a near unanimous conclusion that saw a split of an 11-one guilty verdict.
The murder convict and deceased hailed from Stapleton Village in St. Peter’s and both of them were aged 27 at the time of the incident.
Roberts was reportedly killed between June 20 and 21, 2010 and Fyfield, in that same month, was charged with his death.
His body was found in the early morning of June 21 lying motionless along a dirt road leading from Stapleton Village to Fountain Estate in St. Peters.
According to police, a report was made at the Stapleton Police Station at about 5:30 a.m. that a man, believed to be dead, was seen lying face-down on the main dirt road leading to Fountain Estate.
Roberts was pronounced dead by District Medical Officer Dr. Mervyn Laws.
An autopsy was performed on his body by Resident Pathologist Dr. Adrian Nunez Quintana who revealed that death was caused by cerebral contusion to the head.
