‘Brave’ charged with murder of daughter’s boyfriend

A construction worker who was preparing to leave the country after allegedly fatally shooting his daughter’s boyfriend, was yesterday charged with  the man’s murder.

Sherwayne Brandt, called ‘Brave’, 44, of Norton Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, appear-ed at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan remanded him until March 22.

He was not required to plead to the charge which states that between February 18 and 19, at Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown, he murdered Leon Gittens, 25, of Lot 118 Cowan Street, Kingston, George-town.