FIFTY-eight year old Conrad Wilson of Paradise Village, West Coast Berbice, has been charged with the unlawful killing of fellow villager Dexter Sandiford, called “Killer wood.”The unrepresented defendant appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver at the Blairmont Magistrates Court, where he was not required to plead to the charge laid under the Common Law.
He was refused bail and was remanded to prison until March 4.

The charges came after an autopsy conducted by Dr Yacoob at the Anthony Funeral Home, revealed that death was due to extra-cerebral haemorrhage and a fractured skull due to blunt trauma.”Killer Wood” died five days after sustaining an injury to his eye at Paradise Village, West Coast Berbice(WCB).
According to a police release, on February 2, 2015, Dexter Sandiford, 29 years, of Paradise, WCB, was involved in an argument with another man at Paradise and was assaulted with a metal bar.
He was admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he succumbed on Friday February 6, 2015.
However, this newspaper learnt that the now deceased, after being taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital, was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he died.