Pals lose their heads

GRENADA: A man charged with two counts of first-degree murder after he showed up at a police station with two severed heads in a bucket was friends with the victims and was socialising with them at a bar the day of the killings, neighbours and police said yesterday.

Police identified the victims as Clyde Greenidge and Christopher Stafford, of St Andrew parish, and said their headless bodies were found on Greenidge's farm.

Greenidge also owned the nearby bar in St Andrew where the two had been seen together with Steve Gorrie, 36.

Gorrie hails from a rural crop-producing village in St Andrew parish. An angry crowd gathered outside and heckled him as he entered the courtroom.

The beheadings have shocked residents of Grenada, an eastern Caribbean island where most crime is related to minor offences such as robbery.

- AP