Andrew Gomes, the drug-addicted son who allegedly hacked his father to death last Thursday after he was refused money, appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with murder.

Gomes of Waiakabra, Linden Highway, was not required to plead to the charge when it was read to him by Magistrate Priya Beharry.

It is alleged that on November 27 at Waiakabra, Linden Highway, Gomes murdered his father, Stanislaus Gomes.

He was remanded to prison and has to appear in court again on February 9 next year.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Stanislaus Gomes’s body last Friday by Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh listed the cause of death as decapitation. Gomes had already suffered several chop wounds about the body by the time the fatal wound was delivered.

Stanislaus Gomes, 57, of Waiakabra, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, succumbed to his injuries just outside his home. In a statement, police had said that the incident allegedly occurred around 9 am and was sparked by Stanislaus Gomes’s refusal to fulfil a request for $200 which was made by his son.

Stanislaus and Andrew Gomes lived on a large plot of land about a ten-minute drive from the highway, through a number of trails. There, Stanislaus Gomes cultivated eddoes and cash crops which he sold to earn a living.