REPEATED offender, Robert Rollins, 38, called ‘Bully’ of Kingston, Corriverton appeared at the Whim Magistrate Court charged with the murder of Kumar Singh, whose autopsy report revealed that death was due to manual strangulation.
The defendant, who was released from prison a week prior to the alleged commissioning of the offence, having been charged with assault, was not required to plea when he appeared before Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.
He is expected to attend the Springlands Magistrate Court tomorrow when the Preliminary Inquiry will commence.
The 49-year-old Singh, a furniture maker who lived alone at Line Path, Coriverton, Corentyne, was discovered in an unconscious state shortly after 01:00hrs on Wednesday August 22, after a neighbour observed that three wooden paling staves from his fence were missing and that his front door was ajar.
On seeing this, the neighbour raised an alarm, thereby alerting fellow villagers, who, on entering Singh’s home, saw him lying motionless on the ground. He was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
His sister, Devi Singh, told the Guyana Chronicle that her sibling began living alone two years ago after developing an ailment within the throat.
She also recounted that her brother, who was childless, had ceased operating his joinery shop, which is housed beneath his home, due to ill health.
He was cremated at the Number 66 Crematorium two Fridays ago.