Police recapture main murder-robbery suspect during raid

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POLICE have recaptured the prime suspect who escaped from custody after killing the Gerehu Mart Bangladeshi store manager in a robbery on Thursday.
The suspect was arrested in raid on Gerehu Stage 6 at 11pm on Friday.
This means police have arrested two of the five knife-wielding men who robbed Gerehu Mart of a money bag containing an undisclosed amount of cash on the second day of the New Year in Port Moresby.
According to a National Capital District (NCD)/Central police statement, the prime murder-robbery suspect was recaptured following an intensive follow-up investigation by Hohola police station commander Insp Kua and Zone Response Unit 302.
Police are looking for at least three other suspects who are on the run after the murder-robbery at the store.
At about noon on Thursday, five knife-wielding men raided the store and one of the robbers stabbed manager Ridoy Hason who collapsed and died in his office while the guard, Joseph Moka from Western Highlands, was also injured.
As the robbers were dashing out of the store upstairs, they ran into a group of Scorpion Security Services guards who captured two of them.
One of them was handed over to the police and the other was sent to the Port Moresby General Hospital after he was beaten up by the public.
However, the prime murder-robbery suspect managed escape from custody at the nearby Gerehu station.

3 comments

  • Can the police explain why this scum of a culprit escaped police custody in the first place? Was it ineptitude or a deliberate act by some rogue policeman? the public needs to know. Do we have any genuine investigative journalists around who can ‘poke’ their noses around and find out?

  • The escape of the arm robber and the murder shows that police are in collaboration to the crime and it was an inside job, why? because how can the criminal know the money is in the office? so the CID must investigate the police officers and also the employees of the Bismilla trading including the security guards also because they should have recognized the robbers prior the incident and just imagine the police station is just some meters away from the shop and the robbery is taking place, this shows that we have a big issue of corruption to be looked at in the police force .

  • Letting criminals off from police Cassidy is a corrupt action by police officers. Officers on duty at that time must be penalized immediately.

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