A fisherman, who was being held for questioning into the murder of a Unity, Mahaica woman, yesterday appeared in a city court where he was slapped with a charge of robbery with violence committed on another woman and was remanded to prison.
Zahir Mohammed pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court 1. He is accused of robbing Indroutie Narine of a quantity of cash and three cartons of cigarettes, amounting to a total value of $177,000, and using personal violence on her immediately before and after the alleged robbery on June 21.
According to the police, Narine lives at Unity, Mahaica where she operates a grocery shop and the accused is well known to her since he usually purchases from her shop. On the day in question, around 2 pm, Narine was in front her shop when the accused allegedly went and
