A 17-year-old resident of Ogle was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of schoolboy Shane George.
Akeem Roberts, 17, of Ogle Airstrip Road, East Coast Demerara was unrepresented as he appeared in court yesterday and was not required to plead to the offence of murder.
It is alleged that Roberts stabbed and killed his lessons classmate George, 16, and of St George’s Secondary School on Wednesday evening at John Street, Campbellville. George was stabbed several times about the body and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
A post-mortem examination which was performed on the remains of George yesterday revealed that he died from perforation of the heart due to a stab wound.
Roberts is scheduled to return to court on June 11.
