Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded a 25-year-old carpenter to prison when he appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, accused of stabbing a man to death outside a wedding party in Canal Number Two last Saturday.
Lokenauth Dial, who was neatly dressed in a white shirt and a navy blue pants, was not required to plead to the capital offence of murder when it was read to him late yesterday afternoon.
It is alleged that on Saturday last at Clay Brick Road, Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara, Dial murdered Farzan Khan.
Reports from the police indicate that Khan was standing with his brother, outside the house where a wedding reception was in progress, at the time of the incident.
He and Dial allegedly had an altercation, during which Dial reportedly pulled out a knife and dealt him several stabs to his body.
The badly wounded man was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
During the hearing, which lasted for less than 15 minutes, Dial had an expressionless look on his face.
When it was over, a female relative openly wept in the courtyard
Attorney-at-law Mishka Puran appeared in association with Vic Puran for Dial yesterday. Mishka Puran requested that the case be transferred to the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court instead of Wales for the earliest possible date.
However, the prosecution submitted that the incident occurred closer to Wales and witnesses would be coming from that direction.
The magistrate subsequently remanded Dial and adjourned the matter to next Thursday at Wales Magistrate’s Court.
