Twenty-five-year-old Oarl Benjamin of Port Kaituma, North West District (NWD), was on Friday arraigned for the murder of his drinking buddy, who he is accused of stabbing to death during a disagreement.
Murder accused Oarl Benjamin arriving at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts
Benjamin was not required to plea to the indictable charge which stated that between February 23 and February 24, 2020, at 14 Miles Arakaka, North West District, he murdered Joseph Calistro.
The accused appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and was remanded to prison until March 12, 2020.
It was reported that the victim and suspect were imbibing at a shop when Caslistro reportedly became intoxicated and wanted to fight the accused, who ignored him and walked away.
However, the now dead man, who was armed with a pair of scissors, pursued Benjamin and assaulted him.
The accused became annoyed, disarmed Calistro and dealt him one blow with the same pair of scissors.
A wounded Calistro was subsequently taken for medical treatment at the Arakaka Health Centre where he was treated and sent away.
However, hours later, the victim returned to the said facility, this time with a breathing problem. The health workers administered oxygen but he succumbed in the process.
The dead man’s body bore a wound to the middle of the chest and another to the right arm.
