Latest update April 7th, 2025 6:08 AM
Doctor’s slain wife cremated
Yesterday following a private viewing and ceremony according to Hindu rites, and a public viewing and tribute at a relative’s home in Prashad Nagar, Shewraney Doobay was cremated.
Some time after 8:00 hours yesterday, the woman’s body arrived at her Echilibar Villas home, where a handful of relatives gathered inside of the house for a private ceremony. The woman’s remains were then taken to Prashad Nagar were there was a public viewing and a sermon which saw an outpouring of tributes.
Mrs. Doobay’s remains were then taken to the Good Hope Crematorium where close relatives and friends said their farewell.
The body of 58-year-old Shewraney Doobay was found lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of the Doobays two-storey Echilibar Villas, Campbellville residence last week Tuesday. She had been repeatedly struck in the head with a blunt instrument.
Strands of human hair were retrieved from her right hand.
Her husband, Head of Internal Medicine at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Dr. Ramsundar Doobay, accompanied by his nephew, arrived home around 16:30 hours. He called repeatedly for his wife to open the door but got no answer.
He eventually sought assistance from his nephew to remove a few panes from a window on the upper flat, since those in the lower flat were reinforced with metal grills. The nephew then climbed through the window, and entered the bottom flat, where he made the gruesome discovery.
Further investigations led to the arrests of Mark Singh and Shakir Mohamed. Singh was handcuffed when he, accompanied by his accomplice, led police to a trench in Stone Avenue, Campbellville, in which the ranks subsequently found a hammer.
Persons paying their last respect to Mrs. Shewraney Doobay.
The claw hammer, which was wrapped in a black plastic bag, was recovered on the stroke of 3:00 pm on Tuesday, last, from the trench, just a corner away from the Doobays’ residence.
Mark Singh, the woman’s nephew, of 44 Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, and Shakir Mohamed, of 127 Latchmi Street, Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, were charged with the capital offence, murder. They have since been remanded.
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