On the afternoon of October 23, 2026, local law enforcement officials in West Coast Berbice, Guyana, confirmed that 45-year-old cane harvester Bharrat “Viji” “Crank” Jaikarran, a resident of Plantation Hope, had been formally arraigned on a common law murder charge in connection with the brutal death of his six-year-old son, Orlando Jaikarran. According to police investigative accounts, the alleged fatal incident unfolded on October 15, 2026, at the Waterloo Main Canal in Bath, West Coast Berbice, where the young child was reportedly brought to the remote waterway and attacked with a cutlass, sustaining severe wounds to the neck. Jaikarran was taken into custody by the Guyana Police Force on October 20, five days after the child’s partial remains were recovered from the canal. Responding officers found the boy’s partly decomposed, headless body at the scene, with subsequent post-mortem preliminary checks confirming the victim’s head, sections of his left hand, and his right foot were all unaccounted for. Forensic teams also recovered multiple cutlasses from the surrounding area that are undergoing testing to determine if they were used as the alleged murder weapons. During the Friday arraignment hearing held at the Weldaad Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate Shareefah Parks formally read the full indictable murder charge to Jaikarran. Per standard legal procedures for non-bailable indictable offenses in Guyana, the defendant was not asked to enter a plea at this stage of proceedings. He has been ordered to be remanded to prison custody, with the full case adjourned to November 12, 2026, and administratively transferred to the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court for upcoming procedural hearings.