Magistrate Geeta Chandan, sitting at the Weldaad Court, yesterday again refused bail for the man who was accused of beheading another.
It is alleged that on October 31 at 12.15 pm Colin Bentick, 35, murdered Elon Shepherd, a clothes vendor at Seafield Village, West Coast Berbice.
According to reports, Bentick also called “Rastaman” who was said to have “tripped out,” chopped Shepherd about his body before kneeling beside him and “rubbing” the cutlass on his neck until it was completely severed.
This newspaper learnt that Bentick then walked away calmly with the cutlass in his hand and stood in front of his house where he runs a grocery and provision business.
Three police officers who were passing in a car during the incident were unable to prevent the man from chopping Shepherd.
The ranks drove to the Weldaad Police Station but by the time they returned Shepherd was already dead and headless.
The police fired a few shot and the man raised his hands in the air and surrendered.
The weapon was also recovered. Reports are that Shepherd, called “Fineman” and “Scarlon” had been under an abandoned house with his assailant and a few other youths, moments before he was brutally hacked to death.
Bentick was further remanded to prison and is scheduled to return to court on December 13.
