Duo charged in Glenford Matura’s murder
Posted: 19/03/2010 - 11:02 AM
Author: Stacey Kelly
Yesterday, Wednesday, at about 9:30 a.m., Michael Kerr 18, of a Rockview Village address, along with Lionel Neal, 25, a laborer and resident of #1 West Street, Belize City, was arraigned in Magistrate Aretha Ford’s courtroom to answer to charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
The duo were charged for the horrific daylight murder of Glenford Matura, 29, a laborer, that took place just a few days ago on March 10, at 7:20 a.m. while Matura, a Belize Maintenance Limited (BML) worker, was eating his breakfast at his assigned work site at the corner of Euphrates Avenue and Dean Street.
Matura was shot first in the temple, and in the next few moments, while trying to escape, the gunman shot him in the right hand and buttocks - a total of four times before he collapsed to the ground. Matura succumbed to the injuries while in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) about an hour after the attack.
Kerr was charged with conspiracy to commit murder because he and Neal (according to the police) acted together with the intent of causing irreversible and terminal bodily harm to Matura.
Neal was also charged with conspiracy to commit murder and additionally murder as he, to the police’s knowledge, caused the intentional death of Matura.
The court, because of the indictable charges, denied both accused bail yesterday, and they were remanded back to the Hattieville Prison facility; however, Magistrate Ford explained to the duo that they have the right to request bail seven days from yesterday, Wednesday, since the case file is being transferred to the Supreme Court, in which they are set to reappear on May 6, 2010.
Neal and Kerr were represented in court by attorney Anthony Sylvester.
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