A 37-year-old miner, whom the court heard admitted in a statement to stabbing his drinking partner several times about the body, was today charged with murder.
Lexroy Garraway, known as “ Bam Bam”, was not required to plead to the indictable charge which stated that, on May 23, 2019 at Takatu Landing, Mazaruni River, he murdered Eric Nurse, known as “ Black Boy”.
An unrepresented Garraway appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Facts presented by Police Prosecutor Shondel Daniels stated that, on the day in question, Garraway and Nurse were at a shop consuming alcohol when Garraway got up and went into a room occupied by a woman.
The court heard that moments after, the woman raised an alarm and Nurse, upon hearing the woman’s cries, went to her rescue and dragged Garraway out of the room.
The two then got into a scuffle and Garraway pulled out a knife from the waist of his pants and stabbed Nurse several times about his face and upper body. The injured man was then rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The matter was then reported, an investigation was carried out, and Garraway was arrested.
The prosecutor told the court that while in custody, Garraway admitted in a caution statement that he stabbed Nurse about ten times about the body.
Garraway also told the court that he was previously released from prison after serving a two-year sentence for wounding a man.
The magistrate, after listening to the prosecutor’s facts, remanded Garraway to prison until June 5 at the Bartica Magistrate’s Courts.
