TAMESH Chattergoon was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry for the murder of 65-year-old pensioner Harry Richard Etwaroo of Paradise Village on the Essequibo Coast.The accused was not required to plead to the indictable charge which read that between May 06 and 07, at Paradise, he murdered Etwaroo. Chattergoon appeared in Court One and sat quietly as the charge was read to him.
The magistrate transferred the matter to the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court for May 19.
According to reports, the suspect was arrested last Saturday morning to assist with the investigation into the death of the pensioner whose body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Exmouth seawall last Thursday morning.
It is alleged that Harry Richard Etwaroo, a pensioner who lived with his wife and grandchildren at Paradise, had left his home very early Wednesday morning to look after his cows on the sea dam but never returned home.
The daughter of the deceased, known as ‘Baby’, told the Chronicle that her father’s body was fished out from the water by her brother who tied a sling to his father’s foot to pull him from the water.