Guyana judge to decide next step in teen’s murder
It’s been more than two years since five Guyanese nationals were charged in connection to the murder of an aspiring teen filmmaker from London with family ties in Brooklyn and Queens. On Friday, the judge presiding over the pretrial hearings will decide if there is sufficient evidence to move the case over to a higher court and go to trial.
In October 2015, Dominic Bernard planned a trip from Epsom, England to Guyana, South America to not only learn about his family’s heritage, but to capture it on camera. Bernard dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, his family said.
Bernard, 18, packed up his film equipment, carried $2,000 in cash and made plans with his godbrother Aaron Hing to pick him up from the airport for the three-week vacation. The teen bid his parents Linda and Andrew goodbye, but did not return home on Nov. 5, 2015, as expected.