TWO security guards accused of murdering retired tutor Calvin Fitz-Henley were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

The two, Sudiq Sudine and Richard Beckford, will spend another 27 days in jail after presiding magistrate Glen Brown set the next hearing for July 10.

Police arrested Sudine and Brown hours after Fitz-Henley's body was found with several stab wounds and the throat slashed on a gra**y patch at Holborn Road in New Kingston in the early hours of May 19.

According to investigating officer Detective Sergeant Paul Robinson, the prosecution is in possession of video recordings from a surveillance camera which shows the two suspects beating the elderly man who had ventured onto a property they were guarding.

"The victim was beaten and thrown from the premises and later found dead," Robinson said.

But defence attorney, Charles Williams, was adamant that his client, Sudine, was innocent.

"I am sure that the crown has no evidence whatsoever. His job is to secure the premises. Allegations are that his throat was cut but they have no evidence on the tape to prove that," Williams told the court.

Williams expressed confidence that the contents of the tape would boost his defence.

"We are not even interested in the tape because we are sure that the evidence will completely exonerate my client," Williams said.

But presiding magistrate Glen Brown was quick to remind Williams that the tape might be brought into evidence.
"The tape must be shown with an intent to prosecute, not protect," RM Brown said.

The case was put off after Robinson informed the magistrate that the results of an autopsy conducted on Fitz-Henley's body would not be ready for another three weeks.

Fitz-Henley, 76, was the operator of the Fitz-Henley's Secretarial Institute for over 30 years and was the uncle of member of parliament for South Central St Catherine, Sharon Hay-Webster.

He was suffering from Alzheimher's disease - a brain disorder - and was last seen by his sister who had taken him to buy produce at Orange Street in downtown Kingston two days before his body was found. He is said to have wandered away while the woman was paying a vendor.