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Smiling boyfriend remanded for Nismes’ woman’s murder
-had helped family search for her
Yesterday, a smiling David Johnson, 23, made his way into the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’
David Johnson, 23, being escorted out of court after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend.
Court where he was remanded to jail for allegedly murdering his girlfriend of five years.
It is alleged that between Thursday, March 15, and Saturday, March 17, he killed Leonaka Natasha Johnson, 20, of Nismes, Riverview, West Bank Demerara.
The indictable charge was read by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus and the accused of 45 Norton Street, Lodge, Georgetown, was not required to enter a plea.
While responding to questions by the Magistrate, the court orderly called on the accused to raise his voice and reprimanded him about the way he was addressing the Magistrate.
The accused entered the court room smiling, wearing a pair of slippers, blue jeans and a striped black and white jersey. Throughout the court hearing which lasted for no more than ten minutes, the accused kept smiling, angering the dead woman’s relatives, most of whom were present in the court room.
Police Prosecutor Sherwin Matthews then asked for a date in April for report and fixture and this was granted by the Magistrate. The matter will be called again on April 2nd.
After the matter was concluded for the day, a police rank was seen placing a pair of handcuffs on the accused escorting him out of the court room. He was closely followed by his alleged victim’s relatives who converged in the compound.
As Johnson was being led away, he casually waved at them.
The dead woman’s mother Isobella Hinds who was present at the court told reporters that she was overjoyed even in her grief that her daughter’s alleged killer was caught. Initially, the woman had said that she had no reason to believe that Johnson was the person behind her daughter’s death as he had assisted the family in searching for her mere hours before her body was found.
Hinds said Johnson even accompanied the dead woman’s siblings to the Vreed-en-Hoop police station on Friday where a missing person report was lodged. She, however, added that it was only after her daughter’s battered remains were found that she began putting the pieces together.
“We called him and told him that we find Tasha and when we ask him to come he just keep making excuses and he seemed calm…it was only till he aunty trick him into coming at the station that he come, but before that he start selling out he self saying he going and get lawyer.”
The woman added that her daughter suffered a very abusive relationship with Johnson over the years.
“He never could have beaten her… she would always fight back, and he was a very jealous person always running her cell phone, calling people back and cussing them up, many times I had to ask him to leave the house.”
On Saturday morning at around 05:30 hours, residents of Riverview, Nismes, found Johnson’s body in a trench leading to her house. The woman had been reported missing to the police mere hours before her body was fished out from the trench.
Johnson was last seen alive on Thursday evening after she left her home clad in a short black dress, a pair of leggings and with her cellular phone. Johnson, when found was clad only in the dress and her underwear.
There were bruises about her body and her neck was swollen. The woman last contacted her father’s relatives at around 22:00 hours on Thursday informing them that she was at a friend and that she would be coming home shortly.
The woman’s father said he left the front door open for his daughter but she never returned home. On Friday night, Johnson’s relatives conducted a search in the area but in vain.
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