Emperor Emanuel Chung, a 25-year-old painter from Victoria village, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on 2023-12-23 and charged today with murder.
The accused appeared this morning at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Crystal Lambert where the charge was read to him.
He was not required to plead and was remanded to prison. The matter was postponed to 2024-01-17.
Meanwhile, Ruel Warde, a 23-year-old labourer of Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on 2023-12-18 and charged on 2023-12-22 with murder.
This morning, the accused appeared at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Crystal Lambert where the charge was read to him and he was not required to plead and was remanded to prison. The matter was postponed to 2024-01-15.
The murder charges are in relation to the deaths of two other Victoria residents who both succumbed to chop and stab wounds almost two weeks ago following a gold chain row at a party in Victoria, East Coast Demerara. Dead are William Montrose, 26, a miner of Side Line Dam Victoria and Eusi Bobb, 23, a mason also of Victoria.