A POLICE sergeant is under close arrest after he reportedly chopped a 73-year-old man to death on Sunday at Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast.

Dead is Patrick George, of Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast; he lived alone. The police sergeant was identified as Alfred Madray, who is stationed at the Anna Regina police station.

Police Headquarters, in a statement, noted that the sergeant was at his house in Onderneeming doing environmental cleaning in and around his residence when he was approached and attacked by the pensioner, who was armed with a cutlass and a piece of metal.
Police said that Madray, who was using a cutlass to groom his yard, retaliated and chopped George, who dropped his cutlass and the piece of metal and escaped through the zinc fence.

At about 10:00h on January 25, 2021, police acted on information received, and went to the home of George during which they observed him lying on his step motionless with a chop wound to his forehead, his wrist and his chest.
The pensioner was taken to the Suddie Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The body is at the Charity Mortuary awaiting a post mortem.