Labourer slapped with murder charge over ECD killing

More than one week after 47-year-old Theodore Baynes was bludgeoned to death outside his home, a labourer from Enmore East Coast Demerara (ECD) was charged and remanded for the crime.
Fifty-year-old Keith Jeffrey also called ‘Pugga’ appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court and was not required to plead to the charge when it was read to him.
Police stated that on September 30, 2024, Jeffrey murdered Baynes also called “Silver” at Haslington North, ECD. He was remanded to prison until November 6, 2024.
It was reported that Baynes was found dead with his face brutally smashed. His body bore a deep wound on the neck and multiple cuts across his back and other parts of his body. Baynes, a carpenter and father of two, was last seen alive on the night before the unfortunate incident.

An autopsy performed on the body showed that he was bludgeoned to death. Family members believe that he was killed during a dispute over $40,000.
In a previous interview with the dead man’s wife Towanna Peters, she revealed that the Post-Mortem Examination (PME) was conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) and the results showed that he died due to blunt trauma to the head.
The suspect was arrested and subsequently charged with the murder. While details surrounding the motive are still unclear, Peters shared what she had heard about the incident.
“There are different versions of the story, but based on what we were told, he got paid and the next day, he went to watch cricket at a place where the suspect was. We heard while there, he was talking about having $40,000, and he left and went home. We heard that was the reason why he was killed—because of the $40,000 he was talking about,” Peters told this publication.