Teen arraigned for stabbing villager to death during argument

Twenty-year-old Joshua Williams, a labourer of 20 Swan Village, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, was on Monday slapped with a murder charge when he appeared at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Courts.
Williams was remanded to prison by Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce until May 30, 2022. The teenager was not required to plead to the indictable charge which alleged that he murdered 41-year-old Joseph Davis.

It was reported that the two men were involved in an argument on March 19 which led to a scuffle between them. During the ordeal, Davis was badly wounded and had to be taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he was admitted as a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). However, he reportedly succumbed to his injuries on March 28.
While he was hospitalised, Police ranks visited him on three occasions to get a statement but they were unsuccessful on each occasion. When Police officers returned to the medical facility on March 27, they were informed that he had passed while receiving medical attention.
As such, Police later issued a wanted bulletin for Williams, who had been on the run. He was nevertheless arrested late last week in his father’s Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway home. He was reportedly hiding behind a chair in the house.
Police had stated that on Wednesday at about 16:45h, Police went to the home of the wanted man’s father during which they conducted a search and found him hiding in the living room. Williams’s father was also arrested for harbouring a wanted fugitive since he was aware that a wanted bulletin had been issued for his son. It is not unclear whether the father will be charged with the offence.