Man charged with murdering kidnapped taxi driver Nandlall


POLICE have charged a man with the murder of Vivakanand Nandlall, the taxi driver who was kidnapped last year and later found dead.

‘Jungle Commando’ freed in taxi driver murder case

Stabroek News, Tuesday, March 8, 2011 

The accused, Shawn Richardson alias ‘Jungle Commando’, of Bare Root, appeared before Magistrate Brassington Reynolds at Mahaicony Court yesterday.

Particulars of the charge against the remanded prisoner said he and three accomplices were the kidnappers who murdered the victim between October 16, 2003 and March 12, 2004.
Richardson will be back in Court, at Vigilance, on December 16.

Shawn Richardson


Earlier Police reports had said a $1M ransom was paid by relatives of Nandlall and, last October 14, Albert Evans nicknamed ‘Doni’, of Buxton, appeared at Vigilance Court, also on East Coast Demerara, charged with negotiating the payment.


Evans had been granted $75,000 bail but the bond was subsequently cancelled and he, too, is now on remand in jail.

Nandlall, 20, of Lot 125 Block 12, another East Coast Demerara address, was abducted on October 16, 2003 and his skeletal remains were discovered aback of neighbouring Bare Root on March 12, 2004.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004