A 27-YEAR-OLD MINER was Monday charged for the murder of a man, whose mutilated body was found along the Mahdia trail last year.Thurston Kenrick Williams was not required to plead to the capital offence when it was read to him by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

It’s alleged that between March 5 and 6, 2015 at Dickman Hill, Mahdia, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) Williams murdered 57-year-old Charles Major.

Williams, of Lot 9-10 Queen Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown was not represented by a lawyer.

The labourer was remanded to prison and had his matter transferred to the Mahdia Magistrates’ Court for July 8.

According to reports, Major of Lot 386 Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara was viciously chopped to death during a suspected robbery along the Dickman Hill Backdam trail.

It was reported that the man, who owned a mining camp in the area for 15 years, was a quiet individual and so his colleagues and relatives were in a state of shock at his death.