Eighteen-year-old Raphael Morrison and Joshua Persaud, 20, were refused bail when they appeared at the Whim Court on Tuesday before Magistrate Krishndat Persaud to answer a charge of murder.
The court heard that on June 3, Morrison of Auchlyne and Persaud of Bloomfield, while armed with cutlasses and pieces of wood murdered Marlon Andrew Ramcharran of Tain New Housing Scheme, Corentyne. They were not required to plead to the indictable offence and were remanded to prison until June 25 when the case comes up for report.
Reports are that they had been drinking together at the ‘Dusk Till Dawn Nightclub’ when an argument erupted and the accused along with others allegedly chopped him to his head, neck and other parts of his body.
The teen left home on Saturday evening to go to a wake house but he never returned and his relatives were shocked when they received the news that he had been badly chopped.
When they got to the scene they found him lying in a pool of blood and his body seemed lifeless. Persaud, a construction worker who lived with his mother and sister was the sole breadwinner of the family.
