The policeman, who confessed that he fatally shot his Cuban national girlfriend before dumping her body in bushes at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was on Monday arraigned for the heinous crime. Twenty-year-old Randy Thomas, of Mahaica, ECD, appeared before Magistrate Teriq Mohamed at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court, where the indictable charge was read to him. Police stated that between June 18 and June 24, 2026, he murdered 26-year-old Cuban national Dailen Paneque Gómez at Enmore, ECD. The police constable was remanded to prison until July 21, 2026. Thomas confessed to using a teddy bear as a makeshift silencer when he killed his girlfriend on June 18. During interrogation, he admitted to having arranged to meet the 26-year-old woman after contacting her by telephone.

During the meeting, he accused the now-deceased woman of being unfaithful and the two traveled together in his motor vehicle to the Enmore Backdam area, where they discussed their relationship. He claimed that the discussion escalated into an argument and alleged that Gómez became enraged and assaulted him. Thomas stated that he was carrying an unlicensed firearm and placed a teddy bear against the woman’s head before discharging a single round into her head. The policeman further admitted that after shooting Paneque Gómez, he tied her body with a rope and dragged it into nearby bushes in an attempt to conceal it. He reportedly told investigators that he had purchased the rope earlier that same day from a Chinese supermarket in Mahaica. According to the confession, Thomas then drove to his Mahaica residence, where he cleaned the interior of his vehicle using hand sanitiser. He also allegedly disclosed that he threw the victim’s cellular phone and the spent shell over a bridge at Unity, ECD. Additionally, he reportedly admitted to discarding the teddy bear along the roadway leading from the backdam area and throwing the firearm into nearby bushes. Gómez, who lived at Lot 92 Mon Repos North, ECD, was reported missing after she was last seen during the early morning hours of June 18 while reportedly on her way to work at the Enmore Regional Hospital, where she was employed as a cleaner. After a missing person’s report was filed, detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) launched an investigation that led to Thomas’s arrest and directed investigators to a clump of bushes at Enmore, where Gómez’s body was found in a decomposed state.