A West Berbice labourer recently pleaded guilty to the 2019 murder of a West Bank Berbice man whom he fatally struck with an iron bar.
Kareem Charles, a labourer of Bennett Dam, Rosignol, West Bank Ber-bice, appeared on Wednesday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the High Court in Berbice where he entered his guilty plea.
Charles in March 2019, was charged with murdering Arshad Ali on March 1, 2019.
He will return to court on January, 30 for sentencing.
On May 23rd last year, Charles had pleaded guilty to the same murder at the High Court and sentencing was set. The matter was however vacated because of his psychiatric evaluation.
Ali was a factory worker at the Blairmont Sugar Estate and his wife had given birth hours after he was murdered.
According to information gathered, the accused had a dispute with one of Ali’s in-laws some time ago. The dispute reached the magistrate’s court and the suspect was eventually sentenced. He was reportedly released from prison a week before he allegedly murdered Ali.
Ali was on his way to visit his pregnant wife at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, when the suspect reportedly ran up to him and dealt him a blow to the head with an iron bar.
A post-mortem examination revealed that Ali, 25, of Bennett Dam, died from shock and haemorrhaging due to blunt force trauma to his head.
Ali’s uncle, Mohamed Ahmad had relayed that his nephew completed building his own house for his family two months prior. He had said the young couple would have celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary the following week.
