THE High Court trial into the murder of a 16-year-old schoolboy during a school concert at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) is expected to commence next month.

Andy Daniel Peters, 21, and Shannon Cox, 24, on Thursday appeared before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall and pleaded not guilty to the capital offence, in that they denied murdering Brian Charles Yearwood on April 29, 2017 in the County of Demerara.
The State is represented by Prosecutors Cicelia Corbin and Lisa Cave, and the defendants by Attorneys-at-Law Latchmi Rahamat and Madan Kissoon. The trial is expected to commence before a 12-member jury on February 3, 2022.

According to reports, Peters and the deceased, Yearwood, had had an altercation on the day before the stabbing occurred during an unfortunate encounter at Grove, some four villages away.

Peters was reportedly in the company of Cox, the co-accused, when he saw Yearwood at the fair the following evening, and, walking up to him, asked: “You is nah de boy from the other night?”

As he did so, it is alleged, Cox suddenly dropped into a crouch, and by the time he straightened up, he’d already dealt the 16-year-old several stabs in the region of the chest.

Unfortunately, by the time the injured teen was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, he was pronounced dead on arrival. The police reportedly found the murder weapon, a knife, at Cox’s home.