A 24-year-old man was today charged with murder after he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Oarl Benjamin of Port Kaituma, was not required to plead to the indictable charge which stated that between February 23,2020 and February 24,2020 at 14 Miles Arakaka, North West District, he murdered Joseph Calistro.
He was remanded to prison until March 12.
According to reports, Calistro and Benjamin were imbibing at a shop when they began to fight.
It was reported that Calistro armed himself with a pair of scissors and pursued Benjamin and assaulted him.
It was then that Benjamin became annoyed, disarmed Calistro and wounded him with the said scissors. The injured man was picked up and rushed to the Arakaka Health Centre where he later died while receiving treatment.
