Matthew Parks, the Freeman Street, East La Penitence man who is accused of fatally stabbing a fellow resident during a fight at D’Urban and Chapel streets, Lodge, last year, was on Thursday committed to stand trial at the High Court.
Parks, 20, was not required to plead to the indictable charge, which stated that on September 13th, at D’Urban and Chapel streets, Lodge, Georgetown, he murdered Roger Allen.
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge was conducted by Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Five. At the PI’s conclusion yesterday, the magistrate ruled that after going through the evidence led by the prosecution and the defence, the court found that there was sufficient evidence for Parks to stand trial. As a result he was committed to stand trial at the next practicable sitting of the Demerara Assizes.
Police had said Allen, 23, a Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) worker, sustained two suspected stab wounds about his body during a scuffle with fellow Freeman Street resident Parks. Both men were subsequently rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where Allen later succumbed.
Parks also sustained injuries but was treated and discharged.
