Accused in North West murder held after year on the lam

After being on the run for more than a year, fugitive Thurston Kenrick Williams, who is a suspect in a fatal chopping that was carried out in the North West District, was yesterday arrested by the police just after he boarded a bus destined for Mahdia.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told Stabroek News that police, acting on intelligence, went to the Mahdia bus park, where they arrested Williams. At the time, he was seated in a bus.