Butcher remanded on attempted murder charge

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on Wednesday remanded to prison 24-year-old Omesh Ramdan of Vreed-en-Hoop Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara, on an indictable charge of attempted murder.
Particulars of that charge detail that on January 27, at the Georgetown Ferry Stelling at Stabroek, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded David Pear with intent to murder him.
The prosecution’s case is that Pear was at a stall in the Stabroek Market area at about 18:10h on the day in question when Ramdan, a butcher, ran towards him with a knife. Pear hid behind a stall as Ramdan ran past him in proceeding towards the stelling. He then followed Ramdan, approached him, and asked him if he had just robbed someone.
Annoyed by the question, Ramdan dealt Pear several stabs to his body with the knife. The injured man collapsed to the ground, and was later picked up by an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he remains hospitalised.
Police later arrested Ramdan and charged him with the crime.