Joyce Tang last saw her son six months ago when he left for the goldfields of the North West District. Plans to return home this week were cut short when he was brutally stabbed to death on Monday at Big Creek Landing, NWD.

A distraught Tang told this newspaper yesterday that she was looking forward to seeing Charles but “he coming back in a different way”. Tang said that her 27-year-old son has been a miner for some time now and would spend at much as a year in the interior. She recalled that he left their Pomeroon River, Essequibo home on December 29 last for the Big Creek area. She said that he called her frequently but then the calls stopped. She told this newspaper that recently he contacted a sister and told her that he would have returned home yesterday.

“He sister ask he why he ain’t call me and tell me”, she added. Tang said that on Monday the same daughter called and said that “a girl call from North West and seh how…..