MAGISTRATE Fabayo Azore has ordered psychiatric evaluation for 53-year-old Ali Mohamed of Lot 38 Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara, who, on January 15 last, bludgeoned his elderly, bedridden father, Mohammed Suleiman, to death at their home.

Mohamed was not required to plead to the indictable charge alleging murder when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning.

Police Prosecutor Stephen Telford told the court that the deceased had been bedridden for over three years, since he had been suffering from a stroke. On the day in question, Mohamed’s sister called on him to receive his medicine, but he retaliated by arming himself with a piece of wood with which he dealt his sister several lashes, causing her to run out of the house and seek safety elsewhere.

The accused then ran into the bedroom of his bedridden father and committed the act. Suleiman was taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre before being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was immediately attended to by doctors, but succumbed to his injuries.

Attorney-at-Law, Paul Fung-a-fat told the court that his client, Mohamed, suffers from a mental ailment, and respectfully asked for his client to be confined so that he could be examined and a determination could be made as to his mental fitness to stand trial.
The lawyer explained to the court that his client is a patient of Dr. Bhiro Harry’s clinic.

Mohamed will remain on remand until February 27, since investigations into the incident are still in progress.