A gold miner was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with a murder he allegedly committed 17 years ago at Mahdia.
The Georgetown courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan heard that on May 3, 1999, at 7 Miles, Mahdia, Potaro, Philbert Edwards, 38, called ‘Fiddi,’ murdered David Ramcharran.
Edwards, who was unrepresented, was not required to plead to the indictable charge that was read to him.
The Chief Magistrate subsequently remanded the man to prison and adjourned the case to January 17, 2017, when it will be called at the Mahdia Magistrate’s Court.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum had told Stabroek News in July, when Edwards was arrested, that he had confessed to fatally stabbing Ramcharran.
He reportedly told police that earlier in the night they were drinking and later, while heading home, Ramcharran pulled out a cutlass. He said that he pulled out a knife and inflicted the fatal wound. The man claimed that out of fear, he fled the scene and decided that he would not turn himself in but would wait until police arrested him.
Blanhum had said that the man was arrested after his brother made an allegation that he had stabbed him. It was while in custody that police were given a tip that he had fatally stabbed a man and during questioning the man reportedly confessed to the crime.
