THE barber who is charged with fatally stabbing another with a pair of scissors, in the Stabroek Market area several days ago, was remanded to prison on a murder charge yesterday.
Alvin Barclay, of Lot 1778  Nineteenth Street, Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman. He is charged indictably with having murdered Yohan Hunte on September 2.
The accused was unrepresented by a lawyer but had a number of supporters in court. Looking remorseful, he burst into tears while being escorted to the lock-ups on the precincts.
Barclay has to make his next court appearance on October 25.
Reports of the tragedy said it occurred while the two artisans were plying their trade and became involved in an argument over the use of electricity.
It is alleged that Hunte was the aggressor, armed himself with a knife and attacked the accused who had a pair of scissors with which the fatal injury was inflected.
Hunte succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and Barclay, subsequently, turned himself into the police.