Carpenter charged with murdering No.68 Village boy

The boy’s grandfather and his siblings

Twenty-one- year-old Fazal Mohamed aka Zal was yesterday charged with murdering seven-year- old Saheed Makatnauth of No. 68 village housing scheme squatting area, Corentyne.

Mohamed, a carpenter who resides at No. 67 village, Corentyne was yesterday placed before the Magistrate Krisndat Persaud at the Springlands court where he was not required to plead.
He was remanded to prison.

Stabroek News was told that the boy’s mother and her reputed husband were