FORTY-YEAR-OLD Bevis George has been charged with attempting to murder his Police lock-ups cell mate, Mahadeo Gopie.
The accused appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at New Amsterdam Court, in Berbice, on Thursday and was remanded to prison until November 19.
Police Corporal Roberto Figueira, successfully objected to bail for George, of Lot 337 Mayor and Town Council Scheme.
George is said to have beaten Gopie, who rebuked him for urinating on the cell floor while they were in custody at Central Police Station, also in New Amsterdam and the beaten man is still a patient at New Amsterdam Hospital.
The Prosecutor said the incident took place on October 24.