– for Soesdyke wedding-house murder
THE man implicated in the early July murder at a Soesdyke wedding house was on Monday charged and remanded to prison after he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
Rural Constable, Toney George, 28, was not required to plead to the indictable charge which stated that on July 9, 2018 at the Soesdyke Public Road, he allegedly murdered 15-year-old Ricardo Singh.
George is represented by Attorney-at-Law Dexter Todd who requested an early closure in the matter.
According to the facts presented by the police prosecutor, on the date in question, Singh, a Diamond Secondary School student, attended a wedding reception at a house at the Soesdyke Public Road and while in the company of his friends, an altercation occurred.
George allegedly arrested the young man and placed him at the back of a pick-up and told the driver to take them to the police station, but half-way there, he told the driver to stop and he and the teen exited the vehicle.
He then told the driver to go for the police and when the man returned, he found the teen nursing a stab wound to his abdomen. Singh was rushed to the Diamond Hospital but succumbed while being treated.
George was remanded to prison by the Chief Magistrate, and the matter adjourned to October 23.