Freed after 13 years in prison… Ex-con stabbed to death by lover

Jul 04, 2016 News

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By Romila Boodram

Life on the outside turned out to be more dangerous than on the inside for ex-con Frederick Peters.

Peters, 42, was stabbed to death at around 22.30 hrs by his lover on Saturday, just two months after serving a 13-year sentence for armed robbery and escaping from custody.

The killing happened at the woman’s Lot 90 Block 34 Recht-Door-Zee La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home.

The father of two was stabbed to the neck and was pronounced dead at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

His 47-year-old lover, who claimed that she stabbed him in self defence, sustained a minor wound to one hand and another to one of her feet.

After killing Peters, the woman immediately went to La Grange Police Station where she gave her version of what transpired. She was taken to the hospital where her injuries were tended to and was later taken into custody.

The knife was recovered.

Police have reportedly received three versions of what transpired on that night which resulted in the death of Peters.

One report is that on Saturday, her partner received photographs on his cellular phone of persons that could be potential robbery victims.

These pictures were reportedly sent to him by his associates in prison.

According to this report, the girlfriend confronted Peters about the photos and messages.

This allegedly led to an argument during which Peters stabbed the woman to her hand and leg.

However, she allegedly managed to overpower him and stab him with the same knife. She then made her way to La Grange Police Station.

But the slain ex-con’s relatives are claiming that the killing stemmed from jealousy on the woman’s part.

They said that from the position in which Peters was found, he was stabbed in his sleep.

The man was found lying on his back on a bed.

His relatives even suggested that the suspect, who was deported to Guyana from the United States of America nine years ago, might have inflicted her own injuries.

“My cousin is big (in size); if he wanted to stab her, it wouldn’t have been two small wounds. She would have been dead, but she had to stab him in his sleep because if he was awake, she could have never overpowered him,” Peters’ cousin, Alicia Edwards said.

Edwards told this newspaper that around 21:00 hrs on Saturday, the suspect called and told her that Peters had a woman calling and cursing her on the phone.

“I tell her don’t worry with that and tomorrow (Sunday) I gun come and we gun talk and I turned and tell her that she done got the man and she shouldn’t bother with who calling. She (suspect) turn and tell me that she done with he (victim) and he got to go his way.”

The woman added that she promised to return a call to the suspect since she was on the road at the time but forgot to do so.

“Around 04:00 (hrs on Sunday), I hear a knock on my door and when I opened it was my aunt and she told me that my cousin was murdered,” the woman recounted.

She said when she saw her cousin’s body in the mortuary; he had no bloodstains on his fingers.

“If he had stabbed her, there would have been blood around his hand or somewhere, but blood is only around his neck.”

The third version came in a police release, which stated that Peters and a woman were involved in an argument at his home, as they accused each other of being unfaithful.

A scuffle then ensued between them, during which the woman was stabbed to her left arm and right leg, and Peters to his left side neck.

Peters collapsed from his stab wound. The woman then summoned the police, who on arriving took Peters to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

According to information received, the suspect and Peters met eight years ago while he was in prison during “some racket” and they stayed in contact.

When he was released from prison on May 03, last, the woman went to the Camp Street jail and picked him up and took him to her Parfaite Harmonie home. She also moved his son, Akeem Massiah, into her home.

A distraught Akeem Massiah said that he last saw his father alive on Friday but did not see him on the day he was slain since the teen got up late that morning and his father had already left home.

The teen said that he woke up shortly after 11:00 hrs on Saturday, and he and the suspect left for Georgetown. His father had given her money to buy a dustpan and a basket.

“I left her at Demico and I went in Sophia to see my mother. I was supposed to meet her back right at Demico, but I was waiting on my father to call me. After I didn’t get no call, I called my father phone but it was off and then I called her phone and it ring out,” Massiah recalled.

Fighting back tears, the young man said that he called his father again around 22:00 hrs on Saturday and when he did not get an answer, he decided to return to Parfait Harmonie.

“I had a feeling something was wrong so I went there. I reached around midnight and I see a set of police and when I asked what happened, the police said my step mother stabbed my father and he died,” Massiah recounted.

He described the suspect as a jealous and violent person who attacked his father on numerous occasions.

“If anyone call my father, she does run him to throw hot water on him and she even stabbed him in his hand already but my father don’t do her anything because he said he went to jail already and he knows what it’s like and now he come out for his children,” the young man said.

In tears, he added, “My father left me since I was seven and my sister was three years and now that he is here, we only get to spend two months with him and she killed him.”

A tenant who resides in the same building with the suspect said that the woman moved there late last year with another man.

However, a few months before the ex-convict was released from prison, the first man moved out and Peters and his son moved in.

When this newspaper visited the scene yesterday, neighbours were not surprised at all. They claimed that the couple fought and cursed each other daily.

In 2007, Peters escaped from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts lockups, just before he could be transported back to prison.

At the time, he was on remand on ten counts of robbery under arms, one count of threatening a police officer, abduction and having a dangerous weapon. The crimes were committed in 2006.

Peters robbed ten persons, carting off over $1,088,000 in jewellery, a cellular phone, cash and other items. He also reportedly threatened city policeman Quincy Trotman, had a ‘Rambo’ knife with no reasonable excuse and abducted Adilah Sabree.

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