SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Marlon Garrett of Campbellville, Georgetown, was remanded to prison on Friday for the alleged murder of a Bourda Market labourer.Garrett appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and was not required to plead to the charge which read that on September 11 at Robb Street, Bourda, he murdered a male.
The body of the deceased is still at the Georgetown Public Hospital Mortuary and is still to be identified. However, persons in the market identified the man as 34-year-old Omesh Chetram, formerly of Unity, East Coast Demerara.
The teen was unrepresented and the matter was adjourned until October 18. According to reports, the man was fatally stabbed on Robb Street between Alexander and Bourda Streets, Georgetown, around 01:30hrs on September 11.
Police had noted in a press release that the man and the suspect were engaged in a heated row, during which he was stabbed in the lower region of his abdomen with a knife, and was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
The suspect, who was identified soon after the incident, made good his escape after committing the act,but he was later apprehended. Chetram had, sometime ago, left his home at Mahaica to seek work in Georgetown and while in the city, he developed an addiction for illicit drugs; and to accommodate this habit, he began doing odd jobs for vendors in the Bourda Market area.