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‘Drug addict’ remanded for father’s murder
A 37-year-old unemployed man was remanded to prison for the murder of his father when he appeared
Dead: Rickford Bourne
before Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul yesterday, in the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.
Kumey Bourne, 37, of -‘D’ Field Sophia is accused of murdering his father Rickford Bourne between May18 and 23. The accused was not required to plead to the indictable charge and will make his next court appearance on June 29.
According to reports, Kumey Bourne is a drug addict who would regularly threaten to kill his 72-year-old father when he did not receive money to support his smoking habit. The incident is reported to have happened on May 19, in Turkeyen.
It is said that an argument broke out between the father and son. During the quarrel, the son reportedly picked up an iron bar that was used to reinforce a window and struck his father repeatedly about the body.
Kaieteur News understands that Rickford Bourne was on life support at the hospital and eventually succumbed to his injuries at approximately 20:00 hrs on Monday.
However, Police Prosecutor Sergeant Ayesha Gibbons told the court that on the day in question, Rickford Bourne came home from work and met his son, who was intoxicated at the time watching television.
Gibbons said that the accused armed himself with an iron bar and dealt his father several lashes to the head and also about the body. She related that Rickford Bourne was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was admitted.
He succumbed three days later.
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