A 21-year-old plant op­er­a­tor ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with the manslaugh­ter of Sunil An­drews, which oc­curred on April 11.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the TTPS yes­ter­day, Zion St Rose of Matu­ra was charged with the of­fence when he ap­peared be­fore the Court on Tues­day, May 7.

The suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing is set for De­cem­ber 2.

Po­lice said An­drews, al­so called ‘Vine’, 37, of To­co Main Road, Matu­ra, was at his home when he was vis­it­ed by a man known to him. It is al­leged that an ar­gu­ment erupt­ed be­tween the two, dur­ing which the vic­tim armed him­self with a cut­lass and made threats to­wards the man.

Dur­ing the al­ter­ca­tion, it is al­leged, the man pushed the vic­tim off a precipice re­sult­ing in fa­tal in­juries. He died at the scene.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed on May 1 at his home by of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI), Re­gion Two. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by ASP Vic­tor, In­spec­tor Ram­jag, W/In­spec­tor Sylvester and act­ing In­spec­tor Si­mon, all of HBI Re­gion Two.

St Rose was charged with the of­fence on Mon­day, May 6, by WPC White, al­so of HBI Re­gion Two.