Murder accused pleads guilty to killing shop owner

Nathan Anthony Stoute, who was charged with the 2014 murder of a Rock Creek, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) shop owner has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder.
Stoute, 24, of Helena No. 2, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) appeared before Justice Jo Ann Barlow at the High Court in Essequibo, earlier this week.
The man admitted that between February 26, 2014, and February 27, 2014, at Rock Creek, Cuyuni River, he murdered Sheniza Khan-Bhola in the course/furtherance of a robbery.

Following his guilty plea, Stoute, who was represented by legal counsel, was further remanded to prison to await sentencing which is scheduled for December 7.
Khan-Bhola, a 34-year-old mother of two, of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD), was found stabbed to death in her shop at Rock Creek, Cuyuni River.
The day prior to her demise, she had a heated argument with two men over a pump she had given them for mining. Police Headquarters had said that Stoute was one of the two men who had been staying with the woman around the time she was brutally murdered.

Stoute and the other man were employed by Khan-Bhola. It is alleged that the men hatched a plan to kill her after she had fired them and wanted to take back her pump. According to reports, Khan-Bhola had given them the pump with the expectation that they would pay her for it.
However, things turned sour when the men took the pump to another location without giving her money. Stoute was arrested for the murder in December 2018 after returning from Suriname. (G1)