-also charged with receiving stolen Guyoil gun, ammo
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a man accused of attempted murder and receiving a stolen gun and ammunition when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Sophia Pitman
Idi Bowman, 25, of 53 Robb Street was not required to plead to the indictable charge of intent to commit murder. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of receiving stolen property.
It is alleged that on November 18, Bowman discharged a loaded firearm at Sophia Pitman with intent to murder her. It is also alleged that on December 10, at Sheriff Street, Bowman received one .32 revolver and six .32 live rounds of ammunition, property of the Guyoil Company Limited, knowing same to have been stolen.
The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that Bowman had shared a relationship with Pitman and that if he was granted bail he may interfere with her.
Bowman was ordered to appear in Court Five on January 20.
According to reports, Pitman was on her way to her mother’s residence to pick up her three-year-old daughter when Bowman accosted her at the junction of Robb and Cummings streets.
He allegedly told her that he wanted to play a game and pulled out a gun which he said was loaded with two bullets, one for each of them. Bowman reportedly shot the woman under her right breast, at close range and fled the scene.
Pitman managed to run a short distance from the scene and got a car to transport her to the Georgetown Public Hospital. The woman was treated and an x-ray revealed that the bullet was lodged in a critical area, forcing doctors to abandon a planned surgery. She was then warded in the hospital’s High Dependency Unit and two days later transferred to the Open Ward and later discharged.
In recalling her ill-fated relationship with Bowman, Pitman had said that she and the man had moved to the interior to work and that her relatives disapproved of the relationship and asked the man to leave. She said she opted to stay and this angered him and he vowed to exact revenge.
Pitman had also said that in February Bowman had chopped her on the hand which prompted her to end the relationship and she subsequently moved on with someone else. She said this too angered him; prompting the shooting.
sad for that guy if the woman dont want u move on with your life there many fish in the sea ,now you want to kill her did you give her life make you want to take it from her,u just an sick an jelous lover who who feel that you cant bully your way ,now you are an guest of the state.
Guyana Girl…You do not try to kill someone you love…he was lusting after this woman,,just pretensive You just do not know what is in their minds for you until something like this happens…They have to publish their names and photographs of the women beaters so that some of you do not fall back into their hands,,,they just making bad for other good men outthere…
sn you need to show picture of these individuals so others would not fall in their hands
I SUPPORT THAT PUT THER PICTURE LET THE WORLD KNOW THESE COWARDS WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE ON WOMEN…
yes man, that’s my point all along: PUT THEIR FACES OUT THERE.
let them man up to their crimes
Put him away for a long time. Put them on the chain gangs to clean up the CITY OF GEORGETOWN.
you are so right about that, but i don’t know if the govt listen, if they do the city would be a cleaner place for guyanese to live.
These men should be hong out and placed to dry. The idiots thing that women are theirs to control and to use as they please. Send him to jail to spend 30 years, when he gets out he is going to be so broken, he would not be able to harm a fly.
I’m just perplexed at how young these people are and how rampant this disease is. Twenty-five year old? What are these young men AND women being taught in the home and the society at large? We have some very, very serious problems to deal with. Where do we start? How do we start?
i am very glad that they catch that punk!he will never do that to anyone again,good job GPF.
i must commend the Guyana Police force for taking down one more of the wolves that make the man folks look bad. you will pay for your crime by doing the time.
you are a scum of the earth the woman moveed on and you still want to harm her life. how can you chop some one you has to sleep with. i would have done the same thing moved on. you cheap fool cant even get a grip of yourself right now. one more has been erased from harming women
jail his a–, he lost his right to be amonst society, too much of these crimes in guyana.
I, aggree with all that these woman beaters an killers ,there picture should be place so others won fall in their trap
Please, do not blame the govt. on this one. they are backed up in a corner,as it is with all the flooding.Their hands are full.