Forty-nine-year-old fish vendor Compton Fecker who back in 2015 had beaten another man in the head with a hammer from which he now suffers limited vision, loss of hearing, constant headaches and difficulty sleeping at nights continues to await sentencing.
On January 15th, a jury unanimously found Fecker, called ‘Chappy,’ guilty of feloniously wounding Alvin Melville on March 19th, 2015 at Parika, East Bank Essequibo.
He had been indicted for attempted murder or felonious wounding in the alternative. The jury convicted him on the alternate count.
Justice Brassington Reynolds, who presided over the trial at the High Court in Georgetown, had deferred sentencing for a probation report.
That report was read to the court yesterday but the judge has further deferred Fecker’s sentence as efforts are being made to contact Melville.
Fecker who remains imprisoned following his conviction, is now set to be sentenced on March 22nd.
Probation and Social Services Officer Zola Cameron-Lubin who prepared the report, said her investigations revealed that Fecker became high-tempered whenever he was under the influence of alcohol.
The facts of the case presented by Prosecutor Seeta Bishundial are that on the day in question the parties were involved in an argument when Fecker armed himself with a hammer and dealt Melville several blows to his head.
Fecker was represented by defence attorney Adrian Thompson.
