Police are yet to arrest anyone for the killing of James Peter, the nurse from India who was fatally stabbed to his neck over a phone as he waited to see the Diwali motorcade.
His friends say that the motive for the murder was robbery. “He told his friends before he died that the person who stabbed him stole his phone,” one friend told Stabroek News yesterday.
Peter was stabbed to his neck on Wednesday night as he and his friends were watching the Diwali motorcade. The friend, who did not want to be identified, related that Peter had stepped away from them as they were walking, to take a call from his girlfriend who was on duty at the time at the Woodlands Hospital.
He recounted that they then saw Peter running to catch up to them, clutching at his bleeding neck. The nurse informed them that he was stabbed and his phone was taken away. The friend said that it was a smart phone.
Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken had told Stabroek News the day after, that investigations so far revealed that Peter