TWO miners from the North West District (NWD) were on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, charged for the gruesome murder of their drinking partner, Darvin David, whose lifeless body was discovered in a pit latrine days after his disappearance.
Leroy McKentire, 41 and Rayon Robert, 18, appeared before the Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and were not required to plead to the capital offence.

Particulars of the charge alleged that between May 17, 2019, and May 22, 2019, at Tassawini, NWD, they murdered the 25-year-old David.
According to the facts presented in court by police Prosecutor Shellon Daniels, all the parties are known to each other and on the day in question, were in a shop in Tassawini consuming alcohol together.

Daniels explained that there was an argument between the three men and McKentire and Roberts attempted to beat David. The shopkeeper intervened and the three men left the shop. However, David was never seen again and villagers in the area launched a search party and found his decomposed body in a pit latrine.
The police, during their investigation, arrested McKentire and Robert. The men allegedly confessed to confronting David while he was walking along the Tassawini “backdam” from the shop and stabbed him about his body.

The duo reportedly told investigators that they threw David’s body into a nearby creek, then later fished his body out and dumped it into the latrine.

Prosecutor Daniels told the court that the police are currently on the hunt for a third suspect, who played a role in David’s murder.

The duo was remanded to prison until July 2, 2019, and the case was transferred to the Acquero Magistrate’s Court.