Man who beat cousin with pressure pot cover remanded

A man who is accused of beating his cousin into an unconscious state with a pressure pot cover was on Wednesday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on a charge of attempted murder.
Twenty-one-year-old Adolph Serattan, a labourer of East La Penitence Squatting Area in Georgetown, has been remanded to prison until August 5, 2021. He was not required to plead to the indictable charge, which stated that on July 10, 2021, at East Ruimveldt in Georgetown, with intent to commit murder, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Kerford Paul.
According to the facts presented by the court prosecutor, Paul and the accused are cousins, but they are not on speaking terms.
On the day in question, Serattan went home and asked for food, but Paul told him that the “pot was empty”.
Serattan became annoyed and dealt his cousin several lashes to the head with the pressure pot cover. Paul, who fell unconscious, was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he remains a patient in the intensive care unit. (G1)