ALMOST one year after being freed from a murder charge, Samuel Allen has found himself again before the court, this time for the murder of a 75-year-old security guard.
Allen, 27, of Arakaka, North West District, appeared at the Port Kaituma Police Station, via Zoom, before Magistrate Dylon Bess.
He was not required to plead to the capital offence which alleged that, on September 5, 2020, at Train Line, Port Kaituma, in the North West District (NWD), he murdered Earl Peters.

Allen was remanded to prison until October 13.
According to reports, Peters who was a guard at the office of the Guyana Elections Commission in the district, was attacked by an unknown man who inflicted the injuries and walked away.

A businessman, who resides at Train Line, Port Kaituma, told police that he was at home when he heard someone shouting for help.
“He immediately went outside to investigate and observed a male, whom he recognised to be Mr. Earl Peters, lying on the ground soaked with what appeared to be blood. He then ran to the Port Kaituma Police Station and made a report,” police said.
Police said that Peters was observed lying on his back on the ground in an unconscious state and soaked with what appeared to be blood from injuries to his abdomen, his left side head and left wrist.

After briefly regaining consciousness, Peters died at the hospital at about 11:23hours on September 5, 2020, while receiving treatment.
On September 14, Allen was intercepted by Lance Corporal Bertland Scotland.
However, when the officer attempted to arrest Allen, he pulled out a knife and stabbed Scotland to his left hand, left hip, left lower abdomen, left eyebrow, and left buttocks.

The officer was air-dashed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he is being treated.
In November 2019, Allen was found not guilty of the 2014 murder of Brazilian miner Joao De Souza, who was killed during a robbery.
A 12-member jury at the High Court found Allen not guilty of the charge which read that, on April 2, 2014, at Arakaka, North West District, he murdered De Souza, during the course of a robbery.
The case was before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow, who had urged Allen to turn over a new leaf and stay out of trouble.
According to reports, DeSouza was walking to his camp when Allen came up from behind and, with the intention to rob him, dealt him a lash to his head with a crush hammer.

The man fell to the ground and Allen was seen searching his pockets for valuables.
It was alleged that Allen made good his escape. DeSouza was rushed to the hospital and died the following day.