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Teen arrested over uncle’s murder after sharing burial plan with relative
Kaieteur News- A teenager of Tabatinga, Lethem, Central Rupununi, Region Nine was arrested for murder on Friday after he reportedly told a relative that he killed his uncle and planned to bury him.
An overhead shot of Tabatinga, Lethem. (Photo: Jr Junior)
The plan was immediately shared with police, and ranks arrived before he could get rid of the body.
Police identified the victim as Christopher Laita, a 54-year-old labourer of Tabatinga, Lethem, and reported that his remains were found in a one-storey concrete house with six stab wounds.
The gruesome discovery was made around 17:45 hrs on Friday but the killing reportedly took place around 02:00 hrs that day.
Police learned that the suspect lives in a different house, but in the same yard with the victim, and had a habit of assaulting his uncle whenever he was drunk.
On the day of the murder, he reportedly called a relative and said that “he killed his uncle and plan on burying him in the night”.
“On arrival at the scene, the body of the victim was seen lying on his back in a one-storey flat concrete house,” police said, while adding that the remains were clad in black underwear and had six stab wounds. “Two to the scrotum, three to the chest, and one to the forehead,” police said.
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