A 21-year old farmer of Maran, St. John's, Norris Bedassie has been charged by police for the brutal murder on Friday of Neilroy "Tatie" Mendes of Central Gouyave Estate, overlooking the fishing village of Gouyave.

The badly mutilated body of 13-year old Neilroy was discovered Saturday by a member of the search party that went looking for him after he failed to show up home on the previous day.

Bedassie appeared before Chief Magistrate Patricia Mark in the St. George's Court on Wednesday and was remanded to the Richmond Hill prison until July 29. He was represented at the brief court hearing by barrister-at-law, Derek Sylvester of Ciboney Chambers.

Neilroy's distraught mother, Velma Mendes told GRENADA TODAY that she is anxious to lay her hands on the murder suspect in order to get satisfaction for the death of her loved one.

"I want justice for myself. Give me five minutes with him and I will get justice. I don't want anybody to touch him, just leave him up to me", she remarked.

The mother said that she had lost a son who was a key member of the family despite his youthful age. She stressed that she could have depended on him to do a number of tasks around the house like putting up hurricane shutters, and help in washing clothes.

She told this newspaper that her son left home around 9.00 a.m on Friday to look for feed for his rabbits located in the back of the house. She said that he was expected to return home within half-an-hour but failed to show up.

According to Ms. Mendes, she at first thought that he had gone off with another group of youngsters from the village in search of mangoes.

She said that when the youngsters came back and Neilroy was not with them she became real concern about her son. She spoke of the 13-year old often going with his pet dog in the bush in search of rabbit feed.

Ms. Mendes said that the dog eventually came home without Neilroy and she alerted others in the small village who quickly formed a search party and went out looking for the missing schoolboy.

She said the police were also contacted but the family did not get any help of substance from the lawmen who indicated that they needed to wait for 24-hours before they could get involved in a missing person's case.

She pointed out that just before nightfall a member of the search party saw the dog in the yard and indicated that he had seen the animal a few hours earlier patrolling a certain part of the hilly area.

He promised to go back to the area next day when it was much brighter. The youngster did and stumbled on the mutilated body of Neilroy whose body was littered with a number of chop wounds.

Ms. Mendes said that she felt that the suspect was involved in the alleged murder of her son since she was familiar with that family who owned most of the lands in Bo-Plan Estate where the body was found.

Neilroy had passed this year's Common Entrance exams as a student of the St. John's R.C School and was looking forward to going to the St. Rose Modern Secondary School in September for the new school year.