A 26-year-old porknocker has confessed to the murder of a 59-year-old gold miner Saturday last on the 111 Public Road, Mahdia, police have confirmed.

The gold miner, Roland Kanhai of Lot 8 Cotton Field, Essequibo, succumbed at a city hospital on Tuesday, days after he was beaten and robbed at Mahdia, Region Eight.
The porknocker alleged that he was at a shop with his girlfriend when Kanhai who was drunk came up to him and started to interfere with his girlfriend.
“He got vex and he dealt the victim one cuff to his face and he fell to the ground and hit his head on the road,” police source noted.

Reports indicated that the robbery occurred between 20:00hrs last Friday and 05.30 hrs Saturday on the 111 Public Road, Mahdia.

Several persons were questioned and it was alleged that Kanhai was beaten and robbed.
Reports are that around 12.30hrs last Friday, Kanhai was seen imbibing at a food mart in the community.

He was later discovered lying in an unconscious state along the public road by a co-worker.
Kanhai was taken to the Mahdia Hospital and was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. He succumbed around 10.30 hrs on Tuesday.