A suspect has been charged with the murder of Nelson Thomas, the Kaneville miner who was found dead almost two weeks ago.
Leroy Griffith was brought before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Grove Magistrate’s Court last Friday. He was not required to plead to the charge that he murdered Thomas, 36, called Nelo.
According to the police, Thomas, of Fourth Field Kaneville, East Bank Demerara, returned home after spending time in the interior (Cuyuni) on September 9 at 12:30hrs to register the birth of his newborn baby. The police said that at about 19:00hrs, Thomas told his mother that he was going to visit his uncle in Second Street, Kaneville.
The police said that according to a resident, at 21:30 hrs he was aroused by the voice of someone calling for him and upon checking he saw the now deceased lying motionless to the eastern side of his yard under a shed attached to his house with what appeared to be blood about his body. He called the police and reported the matter at Grove Police Station.
The police say that it appeared that the Thomas was returning home when the suspect(s) attempted to rob him and stabbed him in the process. .
