North Pakaraimas farmer charged with murder of peacemaker

Timothy Martin

A farmer was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with fatally stabbing a man who had intervened in a dispute. 

It is alleged that Timothy Martin, 46, on December 27, 2018, at Kurukabaru Village, North Pakaraimas, murdered Deebert Ovid Joseph.

Martin, a farmer, was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge read to him by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was remanded to prison.