Joshua Dianid, a 30-year-old truck driver of Kwakwani Staff Hill, Upper Berbice River was murdered yesterday morning at Bushpool Kwakwani and 36-year-old Dwayne Williams, also a truck driver, is the suspect.
The police said in a statement yesterday that enquiries disclosed that on Sunday at about 1:45 am, Williams’ wife, 36-year-old Avita Williams, a labourer of Kwakwani Airstrip, was in the company of Dianid at a football tournament consuming alcohol when they were approached by Dwayne Williams and a heated argument ensued between the latter and his wife. As a consequence, Dwayne Williams broke a bottle and stabbed his wife in both of her hands. On seeing this, the police said that Dianid intervened and that Dwayne Williams stabbed him in the left side of his abdomen and then escaped.