A 28-year-old labourer, who is accused of fatally stabbing his co-worker during a drinking spree near the mouth of the Pomeroon River on Saturday morning, was yesterday remanded to prison, after being arraigned on a murder charge.
The charge was read to Michael Culpepper, called “Mickey”, a resident of Grant Melville, Lower Pomeroon, by Magistrate Esther Sam, at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court.
Culpepper was not required to plead to the capital offence and was remanded to prison.
