Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ordered that Jermaine Conway, a 33-year-old US deportee, be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of stabbing another deportee to death in March last year.
Conway was not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder and the case was subsequently transferred to Court Three for December 7.
It is alleged that on March 3 last year, he murdered Sherwin Jansen.
Prosecutor Kevin London stated that prior to the incident Jansen and Conway had known each other.
He said that on the day in question Jansen and Conway had an altercation over money that Conway allegedly had for Jansen and during the confrontation Conway inflicted two stab wounds on Jansen, one to his right elbow and the other to his shoulder.
Jansen was later taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The prosecutor said since then Conway had been in hiding and it was only two days ago that the police located him and instituted the murder charge.
Conway, who wore a distressed expression, told the magistrate when she asked him where he was since the incident, “I deh went in Suriname.”
The unrepresented defendant was later escorted out of the court by a policeman.
