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Women murder accused further remanded in US citizen’s death
Second PI underway
Two women, including the wife of the now dead US-based Guyanese, Abdool Shakeel Majid, charged with his murder are undergoing their second Preliminary Inquiry. The result is that they have been further remanded to jail.
Hemwattie Abdulla
Hemwattie Abdulla, 37, called “Anita” or “Nazeema Khan” formerly of Albion, Corentyne and of Ozone Park, New York, and her reported accomplice, SurojinieTirmaul, 43, of Belvedere New Housing Scheme, Corentyne, Berbice is on trial for murder before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
They allegedly murdered Majid on April 26, 2012 at Number 63 Beach Corentyne.
The women are being represented by Attorney at Law Mursaline Bacchus. Special prosecutor Attorney at Law Ganesh Hira is representing the state.
The women had earlier undergone a preliminary inquiry by retired Magistrate Krisendat Persaud; however this was incomplete when he retired. The matter had to be restarted before the new Magistrate.
So far one witness, Zaheer Dexter Thomas, a brother of the deceased, led by Attorney at Law Hira, has given his evidence in chief. At the moment he is being cross examined by defence Attorney at Law Mursaline Bacchus.
Police were able to crack the case after the man’s wife returned to the United States while he went missing. When the woman returned to Guyana from the United States, she was asked to report to the New Amsterdam Police Station and asked to identify her slain husband’s body. She was promptly arrested.
The body was found a few days earlier with its scalp missing at the Number 56 Village, Corentyne foreshore around 07.40 hrs in the morning. It bore other injuries.
Bloodstains and sand were found in the car trunk that the couple had rented. Detectives had also retrieved the woman’s driving permit from the car.
Seerojnie Permaul
The remains were only identified on May 16 when a brother of the deceased visited Guyana after becoming suspicious about the wife’s behaviour. He subsequently travelled to New Amsterdam, Berbice and positively identified his brother’s body at the mortuary.
The man, a former New York taxi driver, was reportedly murdered shortly after he arrived in Guyana on April 22, after the couple had visited Guyana for a holiday. The victim and prime suspect married in December 2011. After the marriage, the woman reportedly made frequent visits to Guyana. The man had reportedly taken out an insurance policy not long before.
The matter is expected to be continued on January 9th when Thomas is expected to be grilled once again by Attorney at Law Bacchus.
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