A 15-year-old boy was on Wednesday remanded to the Juvenile Holding Centre when he appeared at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court on a murder charge.
It is alleged that the teenager murdered Desmond Sewdath, 29, of Six Street, Whim Village, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) on November 17, 2018.
The unrepresented teen appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh. He was handed over to the Police by his mother following the incident.
The case has been transferred to the Whim Magistrate’s Court for the Preliminary Inquiry.
Reports are teen and Sewdath were imbibing and had an argument over clothing
Dead: Desmond Sewdat
shortly before the stabbing incident took place.
Reports are the teen stabbed the 29-year-old man who collapsed on the road at Auchlyne Village – Sideline Dam and First Street. The media also reported the teen claimed that Sewdath was carrying a knife and attacked him with it but subsequently fell and was later seen bleeding.
He was picked up and rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital but succumbed to his injuries while enroute.
The dead man’s sister, Nafeeza, had told Guyana Times that she received a report that her brother was injured and was lying on the roadway.
At the time, she was at the Community Centre and she left about five minutes after. When she arrived at the scene, Police were already there and from all indications, her brother was already dead.
“The Police tell me that he already died… he had one bore on his chest.”
The grieving sister related that the suspect was not at the scene when she arrived.
Another sibling, Shameza, explained that her now dead brother visited her prior to his demise. According to her, Sewdat was under the influence of alcohol when he visited, and he asked for a telephone call to his godfather. He then asked his father for a shirt and left.
Eyewitnesses stated that the now dead man, who was imbibing with friends, was being ‘tantalised’ about a dirty shirt that he was wearing. He left and returned with the clean shirt, but his friends continued to tease him.
The sister noted that her brother and the suspect were friends. “I always see him talking to this boy and one, one time I does see he and dis boy riding on the road, but I don’t know if they have a close relationship because he don’t live here with me and only when he drink, he does come…” she explained.
The teen’s mother related that her son has been involved in several incidents and was arrested by the Police. “He went to the Juvenile Centre. Only the other day he come from Juvenile Centre and a month before he come from Juvenile Centre. I can’t say what he went there for, because the Police did not tell me anything as a parent, they just pick him up and carry him,” she related.
Police are still investigating the incident. The case will continue on December 3.
