A police constable accused of killing a Brazilian miner was today remanded to prison for murder. The 23-year-old Plaisance resident Robert Daniels was not required to plea to the indictable charge when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. The Brazilian miner was killed in the Puruni District on Saturday in front of his mother.
The court was told that Daniels on August 11 alleged murdered 37-year-old Estevao Costa Marques. Daniels was represented by attorney at law Patrice Henry who argued that the deceased had discharged a loaded firearm at his client who then returned fire with his service weapon. The young man was remanded to prison until August 30 and the case transferred to the Bartica Magistrates’ Court.