A shopkeeper who was questioned in relation to the death of Aaron Conyers, a 38-year-old businessman of Mabaruma, Region One on March 28, was remanded to prison on Tuesday on a charge of manslaughter.
The accused has been identified by police as 27-year-old Zamal Samuels, of Gaja Landing, North West District, Region One, who confessed to assaulting the victim at his shop situated at Black Water Landing on March 27.
According to a police release, Samuels appeared at the Mabaruma Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday before Magistrate Sunil Scarce and was not required to plead to the charge of manslaughter.
He was remanded to prison until 22nd May. Police had said that Leon Caravaio, a labourer of Gaja Landing, North West District (NWD), Mabaruma, Region One had told police that about 21:00 hours on March 27, he went to Dorothy Samuels’ house to charge his phone, when he saw Conyers of Gaga Landing, North West District, Mabaruma, imbibing alcohol with others at Zamul’s shop which is situated on the east side of Dorothy Samuel’s yard.
Caravaio said that Conyers and one of the men he was drinking with began to fight. Samuels seeing this, intervened and Conyers verbally abused him. He in turn threw Conyers to the ground, causing him to hit the back of his head.
Conyers got up and began to use indecent language against Samuels, after which he walked out of the yard, fell by the roadside near a lamp pole, and remained on the ground.
The businessman was picked up by his wife and sister and taken home, where he was put to bed. The following morning, he was overheard groaning and was subsequently taken to the Mabaruma Regional Hospital, where he died whilst receiving treatment. The post-mortem revealed the cause of death as brain haemorrhaging due to blunt trauma.
