Jelon Benny, the prime suspect in the murder of Alex Williams at Number Two Village, East Canje, Berbice was yesterday remanded to prison.
Benny, 25, of Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh, where he was read the charge that on March 13 he murdered Williams, 24, at Number Two Village. Benny is accused of dealing Williams deadly chop wounds during a fight which included two other attackers. He was not required to enter a plea and was remanded to prison. He will return to the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on April 5.
Last week, Imran Khan, 22, was also charged and remanded for the murder of Williams.
Williams’s father, Mohamed Ishmael, 42, had told this newspaper that his son left home on Saturday evening to purchase beers and cigarettes from a nearby bar. He said that he was sleeping when his son rushed home sometime before 1 am and informed him that he had been “violated on the road” and that he was going back to confront those responsible.
The father then accompanied his son to the bar and spotted one of the suspects exiting with two bottles and moving towards his son. He said he tried to defuse the situation while another man was attempting to stop the fight and told his son to go home. However, it was then that the other suspect, identified as Khan, allegedly came out with two sealed beer bottles, which he used to pelt Williams in his face “and when the bottle knock him in he head, a hear the explosion and Alex drop on the ground on his knee and then (another suspect) run out from the shop with a cutlass and dealt Alex several chops and Alex get up to run them and I see the chop on he neck and he skin and I tell he Alex you wounded bad boy let me take you to the hospital, don’t worry about them man this here.”
According to the father, he then took his shirt and wrapped it around his son’s wound and they made their way to the hospital.
The father noted that five minutes after they arrived at the New Amsterdam Hospital’s Emergency Unit he was informed that his son had succumbed.
