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Wife committed to High Court for septic tank murder
Fifty-nine year-old Desiree Jeffers was committed to stand trial in the High
Murder accused Desiree Jeffers.
Court for the murder of police Detective Constable Igris Bobb-Blackman.
The Preliminary Inquiry into the matter ended yesterday at the Wales …Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan, who threw out the defence’s no case submission.
In making her ruling, Magistrate Mc Lennan told the court that she is convinced that a prima facie case was made out against the accused based on enough circumstantial evidence.
The Magistrate then asked the accused if she had anything to say or if she was interested in calling any witness to the stand. The accused however declined the opportunity, saying that she would reserve her statements for the High Court.
On January 25th last year, Jeffers, a United States of America-based Guyanese, was charged with the murder of her reputed husband Igris Blackman. It is alleged that between Wednesday January 19 and Thursday 20, last, she murdered Bobb-Blackman.
There were mixed emotions as the woman’s relatives appeared shocked at yesterday’s decision, while relatives of the deceased said they were satisfied and pleased with the court’s decision saying that from all indication, justice will be served.
Bobb-Blackman went missing the day before his bound and gagged body was pulled from a septic tank at the back of a La Parfaite Harmonie house.
The man’s body was discovered there by relatives who had mounted a search for him following his disappearance.
A post mortem examination revealed that the 33-year-old Bobb-Blackman died as a result of a fractured skull due to blunt trauma to the head.
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