The 30-year-old Foulis, East Coast Demerara man, who allegedly stabbed his younger brother in the neck with a broken rum bottle over $60 yesterday made an appearance at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court, charged with murder.
Taijpaul Nankishore called `Fatboy’ was not required to plead to the capital offence when it was read to him by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs.
It is alleged that on Wednesday at Lot 297 Foulis, Nankishore murdered 28-year-old Ramesh Nankishore this newspaper was told was unrepresented at yesterday’s court proceedings.
Reports are the two were sitting under their home consuming alcohol and playing cards – one of their daily routines, when there was a heated argument over $60. During the argument, the suspect reportedly broke a bottle which was on a table and slashed his brother on the left side of his neck. Nankishore lay bleeding heavily on the table and died there shortly after.
The suspect who was intoxicated made no attempt to flee and was standing there when the police arrived.
At the time of the incident, Ramesh was also under the influence of alcohol.
The case has been transferred to the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court and will be heard on May 21.
Contacted yesterday, the men’s mother, Kowsilla was in tears. She told Stabroek News that she has to cry for her sons because she now has one in prison and has to bury the other. The woman was unaware that her son had been charged and had appeared before a magistrate.
Recalling the events of that tragic day, the distraught mother said she had put a pot of water on a wood fire under the house to cook some rice. The brothers were sitting at a table drinking.
“I always use to quarrel with them fuh that drinking thing ya know”, the woman said, adding that the now dead son had kicked down her pot.
Kowsilla said that to quell her anger she went to her father’s home a short distance away and returned home about ten minutes after.
She said that when she returned the two who were still drinking, were playing cards and had money in their hands.
“They were quiet, quiet so I lef and go upstairs. Then I hear a screaming noise and when I run downstairs I see Ramesh on de table and a set a blood”, the woman said before bursting into tears.
