POLICE have detained a suspect for questioning following the brutal murder of Dinesh Harrylall, 20, of Number 11 Village, West Coast Berbice on Monday.
Sleuths said that, about 00:01hrs on February 17, the victim was involved in an argument with another man, over a sum of money at D’Edward village, also in West Berbice, during which he was stabbed and struck in his head with a rolling pin.

The wounded man was pronounced dead on arrival at the Fort Wellington Hospital. His father said that he left home to visit a close friend after receiving a telephone call and he (father) dropped him off there.
After midnight he was aroused by the horn of a vehicle and informed that ‘something had happened’ to his son, causing him to journey to the location where he saw his lifeless body lying in a pool of blood.
According to the dead man’s father, he had been severely beaten with a rolling pin and stabbed several times.
He said his son had gone to the friend’s house to collect some jewels he had loaned him and he was not certain what took place.
Written By Michel Outridge