NEW Amsterdam stall-holder, Deon Sunthgolam, has been charged and remanded to prison for the murder of 62-year-old Terrence McLean, whose partly decomposing body was found in his living room with multiple stab wounds last Wednesday.Sunthgolam, 38, a goldsmith of Canefield Settlement, East Canje, Berbice, appeared on December 5, 2014 at the New Amsterdam Magistrates Court before Magistrate Rhondell Weaver.

He will make his second court appearance on December 12, 2014.
The elderly man had stab wounds to the chest and abdomen and everything in his house was intact, including his licensed handgun, money and other valuables.
The body was found shortly after 08:00hrs last Wednesday by Mc Lean’s son and a friend, who had showed up at the residence for a visit.
After numerous calls to Mc Lean’s cell phone which was heard ringing inside the house with no answer, the man’s son realised something was amiss since the lights in the house were also observed still on; the man then peered through a window and saw McLean’s body.
It was then he alerted residents and summoned the police, who showed up and cordoned off the scene.
Villagers said they last saw Mc Lean on Sunday afternoon when he was, as was his custom, seen riding around the neighbourhood on his bicycle.
Mc Lean lived alone, but from time to time his son and other relatives would visit; it was during one of those visits that his son made the gruesome discovery.
Mc Lean, a former store-owner and goldsmith, often travelled overseas and was well-liked in the community and residents were shocked at his murder.