Friendship man charged with Nassano Backdam double murder

A Friendship, East Bank Demerara man was yesterday charged over the murder of two gold miners at Nassano Backdam on Christmas Eve.

Forty-two-year-old Kurtland Damon, called ‘Cartoe’, a businessman was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where Magistrate Dylon Bess remanded him for two murders.

He was not required to plead to the charge which states that on December 24, at Nassano Backdam, North West District, he murdered Sherwin Goddette, 29, a gold miner of Dredge Creek in the Upper Pomeroon and Shawn France, 21, a gold miner from Akawini Creek, Pomeroon.