Man charged with murdering brother

A 24-YEAR-OLD fisherman of Carli Bay, Couva, yesterday appeared before a Couva magistrate charged with murdering his brother. Mesh Durbal appeared before Magistrate Gillian David on the charge of murdering his brother Sumarnath Santoo. The charge was laid indictably and Durbal was not called upon to enter a plea. While the charge was being read out in court, Durbal was seen busy consulting with his attorney Selwyn Ramlal, while several persons — relatives of both the murder victim and the murder-accused, sat quietly in the court. The charge facing Durbal is that during the early morning hours last Friday, he stabbed Santoo, 32, in the chest with a harpoon while he (Santoo) was sleeping in a hammock. Ramlal asked that an alleged confession statement be made available to him at the next hearing of the case. He also called for the autopsy report. His client is due to reappear in court on September 4.