Latest update April 1st, 2025 5:37 PM
Police still hunting Plaisance murder accused
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Force is in the process of issuing a wanted bulletin for 23-year-old Dacia Alida Bourne, the prime suspect in the murder of Clifford Singh called ‘Yaka’ of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, six days ago.
The woman disappeared shortly after allegedly battering her 35-year-old reputed husband to death following what appeared to be a drunken row at their Prince William Street, Plaisance home.
Suspect: Dacia Alida Bourne
The issuing of the bulletin will come amidst concerns by the dead man’s relatives that the police are not doing enough to apprehend the woman.
Speaking to this newspaper on Sunday, Leah Singh said that she is not satisfied with the police action to apprehend the woman who killed her only son. However the woman is optimistic that justice will be served.
“I am praying that everything will come out,” Singh told Kaieteur News.
According to one of the couple’s friends he found them arguing hours before Singh’s tragic demise.
“They went drinking Banko Ginger wine, and I tell dem, ‘man y’all humble nah man’, and I lef and go pon de road and come back with another bottle (wine) and dey still arguing,” the friend who declined to give his name told this newspaper.
However, he disclosed that the argument was over money and “who don’t go in bush and dem thing”.
According to the couple’s friend, the woman previously travelled to the interior where she “used to hustle”.
Neighbours believe that the woman might have planned her actions carefully to avoid being captured by the police.
“She fire like about six lash and when de last lash wha she fire, she phone ring and she answer it and then she run straight up de road,” the neighbour stated.
The dead man’s mother believes that the woman has not left the jurisdiction.
“We believe that she is somewhere in Guyana. She knows the interior and she knows the attitude of the police. She knows that they will not try hard enough to capture her,” Leah Singh told Kaieteur News.
Singh’s murder brought a tragic but not unexpected end to an abusive three-year relationship between the couple.
Within recent weeks there were several incidents of domestic violence in which females and children were the victims.
In the case of this latest murder, neighbours claimed that Singh had been abusive to his reputed wife on many occasions, even as his mother insisted that it was he who was the real victim of domestic violence.
Dead: Clifford Singh called ‘Yaka’
A neighbour described the couple as abusive to each other, who constantly fought whenever they consumed alcohol, which they regularly did.
“From de time they living is dis fighting all de time. We done know dat something woulda happen. De two ah dem, like dey does drink and when dey drink, dey does end up in dis fight.”
The woman said although she knew that the couple’s relationship would have ended violently, she was surprised that it was the woman who killed the man.
“Although he thin bone, he, as a man, always got the upper hand over she, but she never used to tek lef.”
She told the media that during all the commotion, the couple’s 10-month-old child was left lying in the house and was subsequently rescued by the police who later handed the child over to relatives.
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