Two men pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering Nigel Allen who was choked, stabbed with a fork and buried in a shallow grave in Claxton Bay almost 11 years ago.
Nigel Roderique, 40, aka Ryan and Cat, and Wendell Simmons, 34, aka Piper, both of Claxton Bay, pleaded guilty before justice Maria Wilson in the San Fernando Third Criminal Court to felony murder.
Allen, 32, a mechanic of Simpson Brown Terrace, Cocoyea Village, San Fernando, went missing on December 7, 2005 after leaving home to meet someone.
Police found Allen’s black B-13 Nissan Sentra abandoned in Claxton Bay the following day while his decomposing body was discovered by police in a shallow grave in Diamond Village, Claxton Bay, 12 days later.
The two accused were charged with Allen’s murder a few days later.
In a brief outline of the case, State prosecutor Hema Soondarsingh said both Roderique and Simmons gave police statements indicating their role in his murder.
The men claimed they were hired by someone to kidnap Allen but they killed him after he began struggling.
Outlining what transpired, Soondarsingh said the accused took Allen to an abandon house where they tied him up.
When they put him in the car he began “fighting up” so they choked and killed him.
They then dug a hole in a canefield but before burying him they stabbed him with a fork in the belly.
An autopsy revealed he died from asphyxiation and pulmonary aspiration.
The judge ordered bio-social and probation officer’s reports as requested by defence attorneys and adjourned the matter to May 9 for mitigation pleas.