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Man decapitates brother-in-law in diamond house
Undertakers preparing the body of Peterkin for removal.
A 39-year-old electrician of Paradise Village, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was brutally murdered by his brother-in-law at his father-in-law’s 1323 Section ‘C’ Block ‘Y’ Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD), home yesterday morning around 08:15 hours.
When Kaieteur News arrived on the scene of the crime, the body of a man identified as Justin Peterkin was lying at the door of the 1323 Golden Grove, EBD residence, there was a lot of coagulating blood at the doorway and just outside of the door, Peterkin’s neck was partially severed.
A neighbour who witnessed the incident said he saw the suspect, Anthony King, in the yard acting in a strange manner, breathing hard and talking up.
The young man, who lives next door, said the suspect had a hammer in his hand when he first saw him. Moments later he heard a knocking, and when he looked over he saw “he deh over chopping away pon the man neck. He got the chopper pon the man neck and he lashing it with de hammer.”
The young man said he started to shout at the suspect and he then left the victim and walked out the yard. The young man said he then gave chase after the suspect who then threatened to kill him.
The eyewitness said that he told the suspect that he would lash him with a piece of wood. The neighbour said he followed the suspect until he saw some people in vehicles and told them that the suspect had just killed a man. Moments later the police arrived and apprehended the suspect.
When the owner for the house arrived with his daughter, who was Peterkin’s wife, the woman fainted when she saw the body of her husband lying at the doorway of her home.
After giving police a statement, the woman who gave her name as Cassandra King, said she was in a relationship with Peterkin for 11 years now. She was begging Peterkin’s mother for forgiveness. The woman said she left her brother and husband earlier in the morning to go to work, only to receive a call for her to go home, at which time she found out that her brother had killed her husband. The woman said she had no idea what would cause her brother to do such a thing.
When the man of the house, Mr King, was interviewed by this publication, he said that the two men, one of which was his son and the other his son-in-law, were both habitual marijuana smokers.
The man said the two never had any problems, and suggested that his son might have tripped, since the neighbour said he was acting strange.
Police in a statement said, the suspect who resides at Princes Street, Wortmanville, left the scene but was promptly arrested by the police who were summoned.
The body which bore multiple wounds to the neck, head and shoulder, is at Lyken’s Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem examination.
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