ECD man arraigned for murder of Port Kaituma labourer

Forty-four-year-old Miguel Hutson, slapped with a murder charge, appeared before Senior Magistrate Dylon Bess at the Matthews Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
Hutson, a businessman of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara, is accused of the April 7 murder of Joel Ramitt, 24, of Red Hill, Port Kaituma, Region One (Barima-Waini). He was not required to plead to the indictable charge, and was remanded to prison until April 17, his next court date.

According to Police, on April 1, Hutson booked a room at an apartment complex, and remained there until April 7.
At about 23:00h on the latter date, he reportedly secured his room and left, but a short while after, Ramjit was seen jumping through a window of Hutson’s room with a haversack on his back. Ramjit was cornered and taken to Hutson, who identified the haversack as his.
Police have said that Hutson whipped out a knife from his pants’ waist and stabbed Ramjit once to his abdomen. Ramjit managed to run to the Port Kaituma Police Station, where he reported the stabbing incident. While at the station, Police ranks observed that Ramjit’s intestines were protruding, and they immediately rushed him to Port Kaituma Hospital, where he was admitted in critical condition.
Hutson was later arrested in his room, where a blood-stained black-handle knife, suspected to be the murder weapon, was found. Ramjit subsequently succumbed to his injuries. (G1)