‘Biggie’ found guilty of murder on Drysdale Street, to be sentenced later

Lenroy Michael Forde, also known as ‘Biggie’, was on Thursday found guilty by a jury of the 2021 murder of Odingo Anthony Heywood. The verdict came at the end of a four-day trial before Judge Sandil Kissoon at the Demerara High Court .

Prosecutors Alvaro Ramotar and Delon Fraser presented evidence that Forde went to Heywood’s home in Drysdale Street, Charlestown, on April 21, 2021, and that there was an altercation between the two men. As the situation escalated, Forde pulled out a gun and shot Heywood 25, 10 times in the back, leaving him dead at the scene.