A 27-year-old miner succumbed to burns about his body yesterday after he was turned into a human torch at a Mahdia mining camp on Friday by a workmate who dreamt that he was being sexually assaulted.
Ryan Bristol, known as ‘Regan’ or ‘Tippy Toe’, of 35 Quamina Road, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, died at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital. He was said to have sustained severe burns to his hands, legs and torso.
The man’s alleged attacker, 25-year-old Lloyd Watson, of Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, was charged with attempted murder early yesterday, hours before the victim succumbed. He appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, at the
