A 76-year-old cook will return to court on November 6 after he was charged with the murder of six-year-old Zi Feng Cao on October 1 this year.
Quan Sheng Li appeared before Magistrate Omadatt Chandan at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court and was not required to plead to the offence and was remanded to prison. The prosecution had earlier said that the post-mortem report and witness statements were still outstanding and requested additional time to compete the matter.
The six-year-old child was chopped to the neck at his East Bank Essequibo home and was pronounced dead at the De Kinderen Regional Hospital last Wednesday
The accused upon his arrest led investigators to the area where he had disposed of the murder weapon, a 12′ stainless steel blade.
The police said that Li had confessed to the killing that apparently stemmed from a money dispute with the boy’s parents who operated a Chinese restaurant. Li had reportedly went to the restaurant last Wednesday to collect the money.
However, he became violent and chopped the little boy who had only just returned home from school. Media reports said that the little boy had only just hugged the man, greeting him after he came home from school,
The child was cremated on Sunday.