A 37-year-old miner, who is accused of fatally stabbing his drinking buddy, was on Tuesday arraigned before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus for the capital offence of murder.

Lexroy Garraway, called ‘Bam-Bam’ of Enterprise, Lower Pomeroon appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was not required to plea to the charge which alleged that on May 22, 2019, at Takutu Landing, Puruni Road, Mazaruni River, he murdered Erick Nurse, called ‘Black-Boy’.

According to the facts presented in court by Police Prosecutor Shellon Daniels, on the day in question, Garraway and Nurse were ‘drinking’ at Joanna’s shop at Takutu Landing, when the accused went into the living quarters of one of the shop’s female employees and hid.
But when the startled shop assistant discovered him there, she raised an alarm, and who should go to her rescue but the diseased, and he somehow managed to get his drinking buddy out of the woman’s hair and out into the open.

According to the prosecutor, when the woman last saw Nurse and Garraway, they were in a heated argument, and the next thing she knew, they were scuffling.
And when she did venture out of her quarters again, Daniels told the court, she saw Nurse lying on the ground in a pool of blood.

He was rushed to the Bartica Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, while Garraway on being arrested, confessed to stabbing Nurse because he’d torn his shirt and that he’d acted in self-defense.

The accused was remanded to prison until June 5, and the matter transferred to the Bartica Magistrate’s Court.