THREE years after the gruesome death of a 70-year-old pensioner who was chopped to death at his Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara home, his 19-year-old killer confessed to the crime.

Rovindra Singh, called Christopher, was charged with the capital offence before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Demerara High Court.

However, on Monday, he opted to plead guilty to manslaughter.

Singh confessed that, on July 21, 2016, he murdered Eustace Williams, called ‘Patrick’ and ‘Jacket’, at Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara.

A probation report was ordered to be prepared and presented before sentencing. The matter was adjourned until October 29, 2019, for the hearing of the probation report and sentencing.

The Guyana Chronicle had reported that, on the day in question, Williams was attacked by Singh, who was armed with a cutlass. He (Williams) was, at the time, in his house.

Singh, who was 16 years old at the time, ran out of the pensioner’s yard into a nearby clump of bushes. He was at the time drenched in the elderly man’s blood and had sustained a chop to his leg.

Persons in the area managed to apprehend the teen and handed him over to the police.

Williams sustained about 14 chop wounds, including five to the back of his head, three to his back and one to his foot. The elderly man was discovered lying motionless in a pool of blood in the kitchen in the lower flat of his two-storey concrete house.