The man accused of killing 70-year-old Osmond Fiedtkou was yesterday remanded to prison after being arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
The allegation against Kenrick Lyte is that earlier this month he murdered Fiedtkou.
The accused was not required to enter a plea to the capital offence of murder when it was read to him by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry before whom he appeared.
He was unrepresented by counsel.
No facts were presented to the court by Prosecutor Michael Grant.
The matter has been transferred to the Bartica Magistrates’ Court for July 31.
According to reports reaching Stabroek News, Fiedtkou’s body was found on the morning of July 13 by police and a community search party about two miles from his Groete River residence (15 miles below Bartica).
His shotgun, boat and engine were taken.
His daughter, Judy Rodney last heard from him on July 8 and had been trying since July 9 to make contact but this was futile. On July 11, she frantically began calling up neighbours of the man asking if they had seen him but they too stated they had not.
His nephews searched all day on July 13 and later that evening travelled to the Bartica Police Station and reported the man missing.
A team from the Bartica Station was dispatched to the area and found Fiedtkou’s body some two miles from his home. Fiedtkou once hunted and fished for a living but had retired and only used his skills for subsistence. The Groete River area where he lived serves as the entrance to the Blue Mountain mining area. He was well known by the miners who traversed the area as he had been living there since childhood.
He is survived by two children: his daughter Judy and a son.
