POLICE have charged a 19-year-old man for the recent murder of Canada-based Guyanese Rawle Harding at Cool Square Bar, in West Ruimveldt. The accused, Junior Bourne, of Lot 687 East Ruimveldt, also in Georgetown, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday and was remanded to prison while the case has been transferred to another Court for March 31.

Bourne is charged with the unlawful killing, by shooting, on March 3 but when the magistrate asked him if he wanted to say anything, he, in tears, denied the allegation.

The prisoner said Police had arrested two other persons in connection with the crime but did not charge them, although their faces were caught on a camera at the scene.

Bourne’s mother screamed when the charge was read to him and told the magistrate her son does not involve himself in such criminalities.

The victim was with two companions when he was fatally shot and robbed of money and jewellery at the night spot. (Nathalene DeFreitas)