A SOESDYKE man was on Wednesday committed to stand trial for murder. He had evading the police for over five years before he was captured.
Steve Allicock, , 33, of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara was committed by city magistrate Judy Larchman to stand trial in the High Court for murdering Albouystown resident Wendell Tappin.
Particulars of the charge stated that on December 31, 2009 at Albouystown, he murdered Tappin. The man was allegedly killed during an altercation over a cell phone battery.
Tappin, of 88 James Street, Albouystown, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on December 31, 2009, where he was pronounced dead.

Magistrate Latchman , who presided over the preliminary inquiry into the charge, found that sufficient evidence was presented by the prosecution to have the defendant stand trial at the next sitting of the Demerara Assizes.
Back in 2010, two other men, Leonard Allicock and his brother Randolph Allicock, were charged with Tappin’s murder. Randolph never appeared before a judge.
After a lengthy High Court trial conducted by Justice Diana Insanally before a 12-member mixed jury, Leonard Allicock, was acquitted of murder.