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Spike in drug-fuelled murders?

Jul 25, 2016 News

Murders by individuals who may have been under the influence of drugs has been a worrying trend over the past few months.
In January, three young men from Bushlot, West Coast Berbice were accused of hacking an 81 year-old businessman and his reputed wife to death during a burglary at their home.
One of the suspects reportedly confessed to another murder/arson that was committed three days into the new year of 2016. That was when two men bound a mother and son with duct-tape at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice.
They reportedly then set the house alight, before escaping with some valuables. The son escaped but his mother perished in the fire.
In May an elderly man from Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, was allegedly beaten to death by his drug-addicted son.
And in June, a 28-year-old man, allegedly under the influence of drugs, was accused of stabbing his brother to death. The suspect was described by another sibling as a marijuana addict and was reportedly in the habit of terrorizing his family.
In addition, the suspect was previously charged with break and entry and simple larceny.
Then early this month, a 27-year-old man from West Coast Demerara, reportedly hacked his reputed wife and their two-year-old son to death, while also severely wounding his mother.
He allegedly turned up at another community on the West Bank Demerara where he attacked a resident, before being shot by a police officer. A few days later, a street fight near the Stabroek Market between two drug addicts ended with one man dead.
Then there was the recent case in which a 16-year-old boy allegedly sneaked into his elderly stepfather’s home and butchered the old man in his sleep.

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