A friend of murdered Guyana Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Director Bert Whyte was yesterday charged with stabbing him to death.
Clive Knights appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, who was told that he had confessed to the murder.
Knights was remanded to prison after being read the capital charge of murder. He was not required to plead to the charge, which stated that on May 14, at Georgetown, he murdered Whyte.
Prosecutor Denise Griffith-Jacobis told the court that the two were friends and on the day of the stabbing, they had a misunderstanding, during which Knights stabbed Whyte.
A wounded Whyte, who attempted to run but subsequently collapsed, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Griffith-Jacobis said that the accused had given the police a confession statement after his apprehension and arrest.
Knights was unrepresented by counsel.
Whyte, 45, of 79 Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara left his Robb and Hincks streets office sometime after 6 pm on May 14 in his car. Around 8 pm, he collapsed in front of a popular nightspot on Main Street some five corners from his workplace.
He was reportedly seen in his car with another male in a heated argument in the vicinity of Queen and Bentinck streets and was later seen running out of Hope Street by a security guard at the nightspot where he collapsed.
Whyte’s murder came as a shock to many particularly the acting fraternity and the West Demerara Lions Club.
