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Woman faces arson charges
In custody Jasmattie Ali
A woman who lost her home to fire on Monday night last is expected to be charged for arson.
Jasmattie Ali was taken into police custody on Tuesday and up to press time yesterday was still in police custody.
Reports are that the police at Cove and John station have since taken a statement from an eyewitness who claimed to have seen Ali setting fire to her own home in a drunken rage.
The woman’s husband, Mangal Budram, told this newspaper that he too is convinced that Ali set fire to the house in a drunken rage.
“She does drink and behave bad, so when I know she drink I does stay away from she with meh daughter,” Budram said.
He added that the night of the fire he left the home with his daughter because Ali was drunk, and he was subsequently informed that their home was burnt to the ground.
“This is de second time she bun down a house. In January, we use to live at another house and she drink and do de same thing but she does get off,” Budram added.
On Monday night last, sometime after 22:00 hours, fire gutted the house which Budram, his wife and their one-year-old daughter shared.
Ali had told this newspaper that at the time of the fire she was sleeping at a neighbour and had no idea how the fire started.
However, there was an eyewitness who claimed that he saw the woman set fire to the house.
Investigations are on going.
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