Row over taking photos lands woman in hospital, assailant on attempted murder charge

A row over the taking of photographs has resulted in a woman being brutally assaulted and hospitalised and her assailant being charged with attempted murder.

Magistrate Sunil Scarce, sitting at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court yesterday read a charge of attempted murder to Alex Benjamin, a labourer of Onderneeming Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast and later remanded him to prison.

The police’s case is that on April 28 at Back Street, Charity, Benjamin, 23, caused grievous bodily