A Berbice labourer was on Tuesday morning arraigned at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Courts on a murder charge.
Thirty-six-year-old Kareem Charles of Benet Dam, Rosignol, West Bank Berbice (WBB) was not allowed to plea to the indictable offence read to him by Magistrate Renetta Singh.
It is alleged that on March 1, 2019, at Rosignol, Berbice, Charles murdered Muhammed Ally. He was remanded to prison and will make his next court appearance on March 25.
It was previously reported that the young father, who was killed as he was on his way to see his newborn baby at the New Amsterdam Hospital, died from shock and haemorrhage due to blunt trauma to the head.
The post-mortem examination was conducted on Tuesday by Government Pathologist, Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan.
Ally, 24, of Benet Dam, Rosignol, Berbice, was allegedly killed by Charles who hit him to the head with a metal pipe.
The Blairmont Estate labour was reportedly killed in an alleged act of revenge, leaving a one-day-old baby fatherless.
Ally leaves to morn his wife of 11 months and their new born baby. The couple had moved to the area about two months ago.
