A GOLD miner of Monkey Mountain was on Friday charged for the murder of a Venezuelan man at a bar at Black Water Landing in the Cuyuni River.

Francisco Demattos, 27, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman, was not required to plead to the charge and was remanded to prison until July 3.

The charge against Demattos is that on June 23, he murdered Rafael Angel Gonsale Prieto.
According to reports, Prieto was stabbed to death by a gold miner on the day in question around 01:50hhs after he (Prieto) allegedly assaulted his girlfriend at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni.

The report further stated that Prieto’s girlfriend was dancing with another man in a bar, when Prieto attacked her and threw her to the ground.

Prieto reportedly whipped out a knife, sat on the woman’s chest and was about to cut off her hair, when Demattos rushed to her aid and dealt her assailant several stabs, one of which reportedly caused his intestines to protrude.