Parmanan Rambarran, the man who police say killed 50-year-old Christopher Findlay last Friday after an argument, was yesterday charged with murder.
Rambarran, 29, called ‘Flushing,’ a labourer of Kadoo Street, Triumph, on the East Coast of Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court One and was not required to plead to the indictable charge, which states that on December 11th, he unlawfully murdered Findlay, called ‘Andy.’
He was remanded to prison and the proceedings were adjourned until February 1st, 2021.
In a statement on Friday, the Guyana Police Force stated that it was investigating the murder, which occurred between 8am and 12pm the same day.
The police said Findlay, who was last seen by a neighbour about 8am, had a misunderstanding with a friend. When the neighbour checked on him at about 12pm, he discovered him lying on a bed motionless with wounds to his left eye, face and one of his elbows.
Findlay was taken to the Beterverwagting Health Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A post-mortem examination conducted on Monday revealed that he died due to blunt trauma to the head.
Pastor Patrick Findlay, an older brother of the deceased, told Stabroek News that he was alerted about minutes to 12 by one of the neighbours, who informed him that his brother was beaten up by ‘Flushing.” He said that he was told to hurry over to the house immediately and when he arrived at the scene he found his brother lying on the bed.
“I recognised him immediately and after looking at him about 20 seconds I realised that he was dead. And so I came out of the house and I cried and afterwards I called the police and they came and conducted their investigations,” he said.
After realising what had happened, he said, he noticed chop wounds on one of his brother’s arms and head.
Shortly after his arrival, he said, he was told that his brother had been involved in a scuffle with somebody from the same community and it seemed that the suspect chopped him and left him there to die.
