Sugar worker charged, remanded for Corentyne double murder

Days after stabbing two men to death in a suspected triangular love affair, sugar worker Devon Stanley has been arraigned before Magistrate Peter Hugh in the Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court at Black Bush Polder, Corentyne on two charges of murder.

The 32-year-old Stanley was on Tuesday not required to plead to the indictments which stated that: on Saturday, February 3, 2024, he murdered 51-year-old Floyd Moore and 34-year-old Quacy La Rose, both of Alness Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
He has been remanded to prison, and the matters have been transferred to the Whim Magistrate’s Court for calling on February 22.

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This accused was reportedly in the company of a woman in her house at Alness when Moore showed up and an altercation ensued, resulting in Stanley allegedly chopping Moore to death.

Moore had reportedly been acting on behalf of a taxi driver who had an interest in the young woman whom Stanley was ‘seeing’. The taxi driver had allegedly invested lots of money in her, and on the day in question, she had not been responding to his messages; thus, he had requested Moore to find out what was going on.
Stanley’s sister has since related that her brother explained that he killed Moore in self-defence, and he is alleging that Moore had attacked him with a knife and cutlass while he was trying to escape on his motorcycle.

It has also been reported that, as the events unfolded, LaRose, who was present at the time and was trying to make peace between the two men, was also fatally stabbed.
After committing the act, the accused Stanley had fled the scene, but he later surrendered himself to the Police; and while reportedly admitting that he had stabbed Moore in self-defence, he has been contending that Moore is the one who had killed LaRose.
Stanley has allegedly claimed that he and LaRose had been good friends, and that LaRose had been waiting for him in the yard while he was in the woman’s bed.