Body on La Grange road… Boy 16, says he used hammer to kill handyman

Aug 01, 2016 News

Dead: James Stewart

A16-year-old boy has reportedly confessed to using a hammer to bludgeon 49-year-old James Stewart after the 49-year-old man pushed him off his bicycle.
Stewart was found dead at the junction of Unity Street, La Grange, West Coast Demerara three Sundays ago. Police had at first believed that he was the victim of a hit and run accident, but a postmortem indicated that he was slain.
The injuries to his head indicated that a hammer was the murder weapon.
The teen, along with another individual, was apprehended a few days after Stewart’s body was found but the Police were forced to release both persons after 72 hours. However, after receiving further information, ranks re-arrested the teen, who later confessed to the murder.
According to police sources, the youth claimed that Stewart had knocked him off his bike and made him fall to the ground.
In retaliation, he said that he went to a friend’s home and borrowed a hammer and returned to where he had last seen the handyman.
On seeing Stewart, the teen allegedly struck him once to the head with the hammer and immediately left the scene when the man collapsed.
He will be charged on Tuesday.
Kaieteur News was told that residents who were going to the market around 05:30 hrs on July 17, spotted the body in a pool of blood and notified the police.
Stewart’s sister, Cameel Stewart, said that after she was informed that someone had died and the person might be her sibling, she immediately went to the mortuary and made a positive identification.
The woman had told this newspaper that she believed someone had beaten her sibling and suspected that it might have been during a robbery.
Residents in the area reported seeing the 49-year-old man consuming alcohol at a shop the day before his body was found.
“When he drink, people does beat him up and take away his money,” his sister said.
According to Stewart, she last saw her brother the day before his body was found and the two of them enjoyed a “good laugh.”
The woman added that he then told her that he was going home since he already visited his two sisters in the area.
The next time she saw him was in the mortuary.

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