Teen charged with murdering miner during robbery

Samuel Allen

Samuel Allen, the 18-year-old accused of killing Brazilian miner Joao De Souza during a robbery, yesterday made an appearance before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Allen, of Four Miles, Arakaka, was not required to plead to the charge.

According to Prosecutor Michael Grant, De Souza, 57, had been walking along a passageway heading back to his mining camp at Five Miles Arakaka when the accused went behind him with the intention of robbing him. Grant added that the defendant took a crush hammer and dealt the miner a blow to the head,