OMESH Chaitram (no address given) was remanded to prison yesterday on a murder charge. Before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, it was alleged that he unlawfully killed Wendell Frisco on July 10.
But the accused told the court he was asleep when the victim attacked him and he suffered stab wounds.
The magistrate informed him that he needs a lawyer to assist him but the prisoner said he lives on the streets, cannot afford counsel and has no relatives to help him.
He was invited into the well of the court to show his injuries and the magistrate made a note of them.
The investigating policeman said the accused was taken for medical attention after the incident in which he was involved but the prisoner maintained that he did nothing to the deceased.
Upon hearing that he will be remanded to prison, the accused blurted out that he would kill himself.
However, he is to make another court appearance on July 26.