Satnarine Jaikarran along with his nephews Randy and Neville Crawford appeared at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Omeanna Hamilton. They were not required to plead to the indictable charges and will again appear in court on March 3.
The trio is accused of killing 33-year-old Maxwell Watson, which brought an abrupt end to an ongoing family feud.
Watson, who was a labourer, was stabbed in his chest. He later collapsed and died at the side of the road after bleeding profusely from his wounds. Police recovered a blood-stained knife and a cutlass at the scene following the incident
The dead man’s reputed wife, Valery Lyle, 20, had recounted to Stabroek News that she and her husband had just returned home from his mother’s house at Now or Never, Mahaicony when his uncle, Jaikarran, started to abuse and threaten her. She said the unemployed uncle who was consuming alcohol with two of his other nephews and playing loud music told her, “Let the dance done tonight, let the dance done!”
The man, she said, was also shouting her name and at one stage he pointed an improvised shotgun at her and threatened to kill her.
Reports are that Watson, who had armed himself with a knife and a chopper, pelted his uncle with a “saucepan” as the brawl continued. According to Lyle, the man ran up her stairs and grabbed her husband even as he tried to close the door.
She alleged that his nephews also went up the stairs with him and assisted him to carry out the attack. According to the woman the uncle overpowered her husband and dealt him the stabs and he started to scream. She said she ran to his rescue and she too was stabbed.
At that stage, she said she grabbed her five-year-old daughter, Candy Watson and ran for her life. She was treated at the Mahaicony Hospital and sent away.
When she returned home later she saw her husband stretched out on the roadway, dead.
During the fracas, Jaikarran was chopped three places on his hand and was taken to the Mahaicony Hospital by police for treatment.
