A New Amsterdam man accused of fatally stabbing, Nickosie Vankenie over a Guinness beer on July 3rd, was yesterday placed on $300,000 bail at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court after he was charged with man-slaughter.
Seon Rajgopaul, 29, of Pope Street, New Amsterdam, appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh via Zoom yesterday where the charge of manslaughter was read to him.
It is alleged that between July 3rd and July 5th at Patrick’s Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, he unlawfully killed Vankenie, also known as `Scarie’, 23, of High Dam Angoy’s Avenue.
Rajgopaul, who was unrepresented was not required to enter a plea, after which he was placed on $300,000 bail.
He will return to court on July 28 for report.
The deceased’s aunt, Angela Vankenic, 59, in an interview with Stabroek News had stated, that around 10 pm on Friday, July 3rd, the family received information that her nephew had been stabbed multiple times.
She had said that he was rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he succumbed two days later around 1.30 am while in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
She had also relayed that based on eyewitness information, Vankenie and Rajgopaul were imbibing with a group of persons at a shop located in Patrick’s Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, where Vankenie purchased a Guinness beer and took a few sips and then sat down at a table.
“Them say he turn around and gaffing and when he turn around back he beer not there but then he ask and this boy say he take it, so he tell the boy that them two is na friends like that for he to pick up his beer”, she had said.
According to the woman, they were told that an argument then ensued between the two which quickly led to an altercation resulting in Vankenie being stabbed three times.
The accused then fled the scene and was arrested hours after Vankenie succumbed at the hospital.
