A GUYANESE man has reportedly beheaded a countryman in neighbouring Venezuela following a verbal disagreement.
The beheaded man has been identified as George Mc Lennon who hails from Sugar Hill, a village near Wauna, North West District.Sources have indicated that Mc Lennon and his alleged assailant, 46-year-old Ivelaw Baird were engaged in an argument at Polvo De Oro, Venezuela, where Guyanese miners have been frequenting for several years now.
According to sources, stemming from the disagreement, Baird allegedly took a cutlass and chopped off Mc Lennon’s head on Sunday. According to reports, Guyanese police officers crossed the border and caught up with Baird walking out of the area which is west of the Amacuro River.
The body of Mc Lennon was also brought to Guyana by local police and taken to the Mabaruma mortuary.
Reports also indicated that Baird was convicted of manslaughter several years ago, having shot dead a girl and injured her nephew on the Barima Road. The two were said to have been walking on the Barima Road when Baird attempted to rape the girl at gunpoint. When the boy protested, he shot both of them but only the girl succumbed.