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Youth charged in stabbing death

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A 17-year-old Christ Church youth was this morning charged with the murder of a neighbour.

Christian Jefferson Ifill, a fish processor of #27 Lower Crescent, Gall Hill, was scheduled to appear at District ‘A’ Magistrates Court today.

He is accused of killing Edward ‘Chucky’ Chase, of the same address last Wednesday.

Chase, 34, died on the spot at Gall Hill after sustaining multiple stab wounds.

He had earlier been involved in an altercation with a man.

It was the 19th murder for the year.

Ifill was remanded to HMP Dodds until April 18, and is scheduled to appear in Oistins Magistrates Court. (PR/SA)

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