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KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent: An angry mob swarmed a man accused of beheading a 21-year-old woman with a machete, punching him in the head as police escorted him to an arraignment on Thursday dec 14 2006. Sean Samuel, 35, was charged with the murder of Stacy Wilson, who was dragged off a bus and decapitated Monday in front of horrified onlookers in the capital of Kingstown. Police Assistant Commissioner Lenroy Brewster said Thursday that Wilson had recently rebuffed romantic advances from Samuel and that both were from the same farming town 12 miles (19 kilometers) outside the capital. Authorities had previously said they believed the attack was random. About 200 people were waiting outside the courthouse when Samuel arrived. The police van pulled to within a few feet of the building's entry, but some landed blows to Samuel's face and the back of his head. Others hurled insults and pleaded with police to turn him over to the crowd. "You should not go to jail. They should chop your head off," shouted Yvette Jack, who worked with Wilson in the clerk's office at a local hospital. Samuel, also known by his adopted name of Adul Rahim, was remanded to prison to await trial. Samuel was deported in 1996 from the United States to his native St. Vincent after being convicted of armed robbery, police said. He was arrested and confined to a mental institution in 2002 after breaking a shop's window in Kingstown, but was released several months later. |
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