Woman’s lover stabs husband to death

Feb 17, 2012 News

-suspect in custody

A fight over a woman last night has left one man dead and another in police custody.

Dead: Richard Sanchara

Richard Sanchara, a 31-year-old fisherman of Lot 176 Seawall Street, Montrose, East Coast Demerara died from multiple stab wounds he received from a man who was carrying on an affair with his estranged wife, Kumarie Baljit.
The incident occurred around 19:30 hours at Block Eight, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.
The suspect and the slain man’s wife have been detained.
According to reports, Sanchara, called ‘Peter’ and ‘Pledge’, had attacked his wife’s lover with a knife but ended up on the receiving end.
This newspaper understands that the suspect began a relationship with Kumarie Baljit some months ago after Sanchara was incarcerated.
The woman’s relatives allege that the woman left Sanchara because of his brushes with the law and because he was physically abusive.
They said that he had even spoken to a Probation Officer in an attempt to mend the relationship, but his efforts to reconcile with his wife were unsuccessful.
He had even gone as far as threatening to kill her if she did not make up with him.
According to reports, the woman’s lover would normally pick Baljit up at a supermarket on Agriculture Road, Mon Repos where she worked, and then follow her to her home, further in the village.
A source said that Sanchara had suspected the relationship but never managed to see the couple together.
Last night, he secreted himself and waited to see who would pick up his estranged wife and sure enough he saw the woman leaving with the suspect.
Sanchara confronted the couple and a fight ensued between him and the woman’s new lover, which was subsequently parted by the woman’s employer.
Sanchara left in one direction while his reputed wife and her lover went the other way.
Not satisfied, Sanchara, now armed with a knife, again attacked the man and another fight erupted.
It was during this confrontation that he was repeatedly stabbed about his body.
It is believed that Sanchara was stabbed with his own knife, after it was taken away by the man he had attacked.
The woman and her lover left Sanchara mortally wounded, lying in a pool of blood while they made their way to the Beterverwagting Police Station to report the incident.
While the police were taking the report, they received word that a man was lying in a pool of blood on the road.
But before they could respond, members of the area’s Community Policing Group picked up the badly wounded Sanchara and took him to the station.
They were advised to rush him to the Georgetown Hospital but by then it was too late. Sanchara was pronounced dead at the medical institution.
Police did not have to go in search of the suspect who was still at the Beterverwagting Police Station when word of Sanchara’s death was relayed.
According to reports, police have not yet recovered the murder weapon.
Sanchara’s relatives said that he had come in from sea yesterday. They said that he left home at around 15: 30 hrs to go to Mon Repos, to see his seven-year-old daughter, who lives with his estranged wife.
A sister of the slain man said that at around 19:30 hrs, a taxi driver visited the home and told her that Sanchara had gotten “chopped up,” and had been taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
However, by the time that the relatives arrived, Sanchara’s body had already been taken to the mortuary.
They said that they learned that Sanchara’s wife had been detained at the Beterverwagting Police Station while her lover was being held at the Sparendaam Police Station.