20-year-old charged for Duncan murder

A 20-year-old Mt St George man appeared before Magistrate Brian Debideen on Tuesday charged with the murder of construction worker, 27-year-old Shonneil ‘Pussa’ Duncan.

Nickosce Davis appeared just around 12:30 pm, dressed in a button-up t-shirt and three-quarter pants in the Scarborough Magistrate’s Second Court to answer to the charge that he murdered Duncan on May 5 at Back Street in Mt St George.

Davis, who was represented by attorney Hazel-Ann Roberts, was not called on to enter a plea, since the charge was laid indictably.

Debideen enquired from the prosecution about the disclosure of the evidence being relied on by the police in the matter, to which Court prosecutor Sgt Dillon replied that a police file was still being compiled and would be forwarded to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions shortly.

The case was adjourned to June 13. Davis was charged by Cpl Burt Guy of the Tobago Homicide Bureau.

Police reports are that on May 5, shortly after 7pm at Back Street, Mt St George, Duncan was liming with a group of friends when he got into an altercation a man over a debt.

Reports are that after a short struggle, Duncan fell to the ground and the man was seen running away.

Police said the man was found asleep in a house on the Windward Road on Sunday morning by police officers. An autopsy conducted last Wednesday by Forensic Pathologist Dr Eslyn McDonald Burris at the mortuary of the Scarborough General Hospital, showed that Duncan died from haemorrhaging as a result of a stab wound to his neck.