A 26-year-old man was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody yes­ter­day af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of taxi dri­ver Sher­az Ali.

Kyle Ker­ri Bel­con was tak­en be­fore Mas­ter Adia Mo­hammed who read the charge to him.

He was ar­rest­ed on Fri­day af­ter he went to the po­lice sta­tion with his moth­er. Two days lat­er, Ali’s body was found down a precipice in a forest­ed area at at To­tal Av­enue, Ger­a­hoo Trace, Fyz­abad.

Ali, 64, was last seen by his broth­er on May 19 dri­ving a brown Nis­san B14, at Seukaran Trace, Siparia. Af­ter call to his cell­phone went unan­swered, his broth­er re­port­ed miss­ing to the po­lice the fol­low­ing day.

A suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing has been fixed for Oc­to­ber 16. —Sascha Wil­son