Teen to stand trial for murder

A TEENAGER was committed to stand trial yesterday for the murder of a Petit Bourg man. Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls ordered the16-year-old boy to stand trial for the murder of 20-year-old Kerry Chinkeefatt at the end of a preliminary inquiry in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court. Chinkeefatt, of Ryan Street, Petit Bourg, was allegedly slashed across his stomach while at his workplace at Rasheed’s Tray Repair Shop, Silver Mill, Petit Bourg on July 11, 2002. 

Cpl St Aude of the Port-of-Spain CID, who laid the charge against the teen, was the last of 12 witnesses to give evidence in the matter. When asked if he  wished to call any witnesses to give evidence on his behalf, the boy declined in the absence of his defence counsel Theodore Guerra SC. Magistrate Mc Nicolls told the teen he was satisfied that a prima facie case had been made against him and he would stand trial at the next sitting of the Assizes. The teen has been remanded in custody to the Youth Training Centre.