The DVD vendor who was allegedly involved in the murder of the taxi driver from outside the Georgetown Public Hospital was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared before Magis-trate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Louis Lancaster

Thirty-five-year-old Louis Lancaster of Fifth Street, Alberttown was not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder.

It is alleged that on October 26, on Bent Street between Hardina and Haley streets, Lancaster and a male accomplice murdered ex-police officer Vibert Assanah of 40 Ptolemy Street, Melanie Damishana, by stabbing him in the shoulder with a knife that punctured a major artery.

Vibert Assanah

Lancaster said that he had given the police information about who the accomplice was including his name, address and on several occasions while being in police custody he pointed out a few of the accomplice’s family members but “nobody ain’t doing anything with de information I giving them.”

Magistrate Robertson subsequently ordered that Lancaster be remanded to prison and that he appear back in court on December 2.