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Illegal Guyanese jailed in Suriname for assault on fellow-countryman

Friday, July 21, 2006

by: Ivan Cairo
Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent
Email: ivan@caribbeannetnews.com

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Three Guyanese men, who were residing illegally in Suriname, were sentenced to jail by a Surinamese court this week for hacking a fellow-countryman with cutlasses in January.

After pleading guilty to premeditated, aggravated assault, both George Eon and Sean Paul were sentenced to a 12-month jail term. The third suspect, Kevin Clarke, was found guilty of aggravated assault and received a 12-month jail term with two months probation.

The judgment differed from the two years and six month sentence the prosecution was seeking. Judge Albert Ramnewash told the suspects that since their victim, William ‘Boobs’ Derby, had stalked, threatened and provoked them, they were getting a lower sentence.

The three men were living in the same neighborhood with the victim when, in January, Derby accused them that their cat had killed Derby’s pigeon, followed by an argument with the three suspects. Since then Derby had been threatening to kill the three men.

On January 19 and 20, armed with a machete, Derby walked up to the three suspects threatening to chop them to death. Two days later the three terrified men decided that they could scare their stalker. Each armed with a cutlass and knives went to Derby’s home and he, on seeing his assailants, escaped through a window.

Unfortunately he was chased down, chopped in the back and fell down. Eon and Paul went into a rage and chopped their victim several times on the body. Assuming that he was dead they just left him behind in front of the hospital where the attack took place.

Shortly after the incident they were arrested by the police with the cutlasses and knives still in their possession and blood-stained clothes still on their backs.

While still receiving treatment in hospital, Derby, who was wanted by the police in Guyana, fled from the hospital and eventually fled the country, reportedly ending up in Trinidad and Tobago.

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