Passengers walk free from attempted murder of a taxi driver
Kaieteur News- A construction worker and poultry handler walked Thursday free of trying to kill a taxi driver.
The matter related to Ernest James, 25, of Lot 179 Old Road Eccles, Demerara East Bank, and Linden Flavius, 31, being heard in Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly.
On their first court appearance they were not required to plead to the indictable charge that, on July 11, 2019, in the John Fernandes Squatting District, Georgetown, with intent to murder, they read Derrick Nelson illegally and malicious.
Last Thursday, the matter was dismissed after Nelson failed to appear in court to testify several times.
It was alleged that Nelson, a taxi driver, was hired on the day in question to take them to West Ruimveldt Back Road.
After Nelson picked up the men and was on his way to the directed destination, Flavius pulled a gun out of his pants and held the taxi driver at gunpoint while James allegedly dealt with the victim several times trywan about his body with an ice pick. The men were then reported to have released Nelson from his cash and jewelery before escaping through some nearby bushes.
The vehicle then crashed into a pile of wood and rushed the victim to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he remained in hospital for several weeks. The matter was later reported and an investigation launched which led to the arrest of the two accused.