A man was yesterday charged with the murder of Uitvlugt fisherman Nandalall Bopat.
Andrew Albert, of De Groot, Uivlugt, was not required to plead to the capital offence of murder when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court. He was remanded to prison until October 5.
It is alleged that on Tuesday, he fatally stabbed Bopat, 43, at the De Groot Housing Scheme. According to reports, sometime around 12.30 pm that day the defendant attacked Bopat with a knife and stabbed him repeatedly about the body. At the end of the attack, Bopat’s intestines were protruding.
Police said that the two men were involved in an argument during which Bopat was stabbed. The injured man was taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital, where he succumbed while receiving medical treatment. Albert then calmly fled but he was arrested at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo the next day.
Albert had worked for Bopat.
