A New Amsterdam labourer was Tuesday remanded to prison for the murder of one of two men who died just over a week ago at Caracas, West Canje. This follows a charge last Friday, of another man with one of the deaths.
However, the police are still on the hunt for another suspect in connection with one of the murders.
Eubeern Bristol being escorted to court on Tuesday by two police officers
On Tuesday Eubeern Bristol, called ‘Eusie’, a 39-year-old labourer of Smithfield, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was on Tuesday remanded to prison for the murder of Leon Fordyce, which occurred on May 4, at Caracas.
Bristol appeared before Magistrate Michelle Mathias at the Albion Magistrate’s Court, where he was not required to plead to the indictable charge.
Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Mark Edwards told the court that the police are looking for another suspect in connection with the murder of Fordyce. He said that the suspect is still to be apprehended and charged.
Attorney at Law, Sasha Roberts, representing Bristol questioned what would happen if the second person is not apprehended.
The prosecutor said the police will go ahead with the charge as it stands, with only Bristol facing trial for Fordyce’s murder.
The Court has set June 9, for the police to make available all the evidence they have in the case so that the accused can have a file with that evidence.
Fordyce was one of two men picked up on May 5, lying motionless on the roadside at Caracas, just adjacent to Angoy’s Avenue.
The other man was 46-year-old Shawn LaFleur, of Caracas.
Fordyce was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Hospital, while LaFleur succumbed to his injuries while being transferred from the New Amsterdam Hospital to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Meanwhile, an autopsy conducted on the body of Leon Fordyce gave the cause of death as shock and hemorrhage due to multiple injuries.
