The teenager who is accused of chopping his stepfather to death during last week will be making his first court appearance today after the police received legal advice, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.
The body of Williams, called ‘Patrick’ and ‘Jacket’, was discovered in a pool of blood in the lower flat of his two-storey Crane, West Coast Demerara house.
He sustained about 14 chop wounds, including five to the back of his head, three to his back and one to his feet.
The 16-year-old suspect was captured shortly after the incident among some thick bushes behind the house and he has admitted to committing the horrendous act.
Reports had revealed that the suspect after being taken into custody had told the police that he went into the house for “something” and Williams tried to put him out and he got angry and started chopping him.
Neighbours were unaware that the chopping was taking place because of the noise from a ‘hiab’ truck that was parked in front of a building under construction opposite the scene.
The construction workers, although they heard no noise, became suspicious that something was amiss after they saw the boy, who was covered in blood, trying to scale the concrete fence to escape.
The suspect also sustained a chop to his foot and he was taken for treatment.
Neighbours believed that the murder was “premeditated.” They had related to this newspaper that “some boys who does lime at the street corner saw him sharpening a cutlass” a few days ago. They asked the boy what he was doing with the cutlass but he did not answer.
Police recovered the murder weapon at the scene.
Williams, in his younger days, worked as a pork-knocker. One of his hands suffered a disability after it was broken during a robbery.
