After 4 months on remand: Accused charged with killing father of 5 granted $500,000 bail

Zamol Samuels, who is facing a charge of manslaughter over the death of a 38-year-old father of five, was granted $500,000 bail on Monday, four months after he was charged with the offence.
Samuels of Gaja Landing, North West District (NWD), Region One (Barima-Waini), reappeared before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Mabaruma Magistrate’s Court.
He has not been required to plead to the indictable charge which alleged that on March 27 at Black Water Landing, Region One, he unlawfully killed Aaron Conyers, 38.
Samuels, who is being represented by Attorney-at-Law Bernard DaSilva, will return to court on November 20 for the commencement of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI).
According to the Police, Leon Caravaio, a labourer of Gaja Landing went to Dorothy Samuels’s house to charge his phone on March 27, when he noticed Conyers imbibing with others at Zamol’s shop, which is located on the east side of Dorothy Samuels’s yard.
Conyers and one of the individuals with whom he was drinking, allegedly got into a fight, according to Caravaio. When Samuels noticed this, he intervened, and Conyers verbally assaulted him.
Conyers then struck the back of his head after being thrown to the ground by Samuels. The now-dead man reportedly sprang up and started to insult Samuels in a lewd manner.
He then left the yard and collapsed on the side of the road. Conyers, a businessman, was picked up by his wife and sister and taken home, where he was put to bed.
The following morning, he was overheard groaning and was subsequently taken to the Mabaruma Regional Hospital, where he died whilst receiving treatment. His cause of death was given as brain haemorrhaging due to blunt trauma.