Victoria man fatally stabbed in false name row

Andre Wilson

The use of a false name resulted in the death of a 47-year-old consultant with the Ministry of Health who succumbed to a stabbing wound on Sunday night at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Dead is Andre Wilson aka ‘Puchie’ of 388 Middle Walk, Victoria, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The incident occurred on October 24 about 17:00 at a shop located at Victoria South, ECD. Police yesterday said that the suspect, a taxi driver is in custody pending a murder charge.

Andre’s friend, Clive Lawrence, a US-based Guyanese who’s in Guyana vacationing, told  Stabroek News that last Thursday afternoon he, Wilson and some other friends were hanging out at a shop in the street when he saw the suspect, who everyone knows since childhood.