-case against wife, juvenile dismissed

A TWENTY-SEVEN-year-old labourer of Bush Lot, Region Two, will stand trial at the next practical session of the Suddie High Court to answer to the charge of murder.
Norlando Brown, his wife, Pamela Joseph, and a seventeen-year-old boy, had appeared before the court on July 7, 2020 for allegedly murdering newspaper vendor, Sham Munilall. Munilall was shot and killed during a robbery at his Queenstown, Essequibo home. Initially, Carlton Carter, Carl Michael Carter, Delhoya Mckenzie, Norlando Brown, and the teenager were charged with the crime. The state prosecutor withdrew the case against the quintet and a new charge was instituted against Brown, Joseph and the teen. On April 13, Magistrate Esther Sam ruled that a case for murder had been made out against Brown, and she committed him to stand trial at the Suddie High Court.

He will remain in prison until his trial. Concerning Joseph, who never made a court appearance and the teenager, Magistrate Sam found that a case was not made out against them. Therefore, the case against them was dismissed. Forty-eight-year-old Sham Munilall, also called “Chunnilall” and “paperman”, was killed during the course or furtherance of a robbery. Reports are that the man was in front of his yard having a barbeque with his family when three men, one armed with a handgun and another with a cutlass, scaled the fence and gained entry into the residence. The armed men attacked Munilall’s wife Rita, who was at the front door of the house. Upon seeing this, Munilall confronted the perpetrators, but the gunman opened fire on him. He was shot four times about his body. The trio escaped. The injured man was rushed to the Suddie Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.