The 18 year old St. Maarten Academy P.S.V.E. student George Mardenborough was arrested last week Monday after an eyewitness and close relative to Mark Anthony Deygoo fingered him as one of the two suspects that shot the businessman on September 21st 2011 in his Back Street store. Prosecutor Hans Mos confirmed that the young man was released on Tuesday after he had a very plausible alibi. Mos said the investigation into Deygoo's murder is still ongoing.
SMN News learnt that a number of persons came forward and provided an alibi for the young man that police arrested last week as one the two suspects that shot Mark Deygoo.
SMN News has been reliably informed that Mardenborough attends a GED class in Dutch Quarter and his mother approached the teacher of the class for a letter to clear her son but the teacher was not sure if her student was in class that day. It is not clear if the teacher is one of the persons that provided the alibi to police so that the young man could have been released.
A source very close to the family said the young man had been acting very strange these past weeks and that he even refused to leave his Belvedere home. The source said Mardenborough was not even meeting his friends who went in search for him when they missed him. They said the young man's mother even sought the assistance of his GED teacher to speak to her son since she could not get to him neither could she understand his change of behavior. SMN News further learnt that the teacher went to her student's place of employment where she spoke to him about his mother's concerns but days later he was arrested as Deygoo's murder suspect.
Below is the Police Press Release on Release of the Deygoo Murder Suspect.
The Public Prosecutor's Office and the Police Department hereby announces that the suspect that was arrested in connection with the armed robbery at Fragile Bundles and Baby's on Backstreet which took place on September 21st 2011 has been released. During this robbery, the owner of this establishment by the name of Marc Deygoo lost his life after being shot several times. The suspect was released on November 30th 2011 due to the lack of sufficient evidence. Several witnesses gave statements that the suspect, at the time of the incident was elsewhere, and in doing so provided the suspect with an alibi. This investigation continues and the Prosecutor's Office along with the police department is asking anyone who may have information that could help with this investigation to come forward.
