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Police await Sophia murder suspects discharge from hospital
Police are awaiting Godfrey Stewart’s discharge from the Georgetown Public Hospital before instituting murder and arson charges against him.
Stewart, called Godfrey Chase, turned himself in to police last Wednesday, four days after killing his reputed wife, Jacqueline George, and setting her house on fire with the aim of concealing the crime.
Stewart turned up at the Turkeyen Police Station with what appeared to be three stab wounds, which he claimed were inflicted by George during a fight shortly before the Sophia house went up in flames.
He told investigators that he hid in the cane fields aback of Sophia but decided to turn himself in after the wounds became infected.
Godfrey Stewart
According to a source, Stewart underwent surgery on Friday to cleanse his wounds which had become worm infested.
Police say that he has confessed to killing George and torching the house.
They could not determine however, if Stewart’s wounds were self inflicted as many persons believe.
One of those persons making the allegation of Stewart wounding himself is Michelle Wiltshire, the dead woman’s daughter.
Wiltshire and her sister Sharon visited the hospital to “make sure that is he.”
They had to be restrained by hospital staff and the police guard on duty at the time from physically attacking Stewart.
“When we go and see he, he couldn’t look us in our face,” Wiltshire told Kaieteur News.
She said that she does not believe that her mother had wounded the man.
“If she de juk he up, he would’a bleed to death,” she argued.
A senior police official told this newspaper that there is no question of whether Stewart will face the court for his actions. “It’s just a matter of when.”
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