Latest update November 26th, 2024 1:00 AM
Murder accused dies in jail one day after being remanded
The 49-year-old man who murdered the 19-year-old mother of his child and then drank a dose of poison died in jail, yesterday, one day after he was remanded to the penal institution.
Robert Sandy
Robert Sandy, called ‘Jug’, who was a carpenter of Mai Mai Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, stabbed Oneka Greaves, the 19-year-old mother of one of his children to death on the evening of May 19, last, before ingesting poison. He was subsequently hospitalized in the New Amsterdam Hospital under guard.
He was discharged on May 26 and taken into police custody. On Tuesday, he appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court and was not required to enter a plea to the indictable offence. Sandy was remanded to jail and placed into the prison infirmary where he fell ill. The man was removed from the prison and taken to the New Amsterdam hospital where he was admitted under guard.
Sandy was subsequently discharged from the institution hours after, and was returned to the New Amsterdam prison. Prison authorities, whilst making regular round in the jail, discovered him dead on the floor around 05:15 hrs.
Sandy was accused of brutally stabbing the woman after she allegedly spurned him. The man, who had four grown children – aged 25, 23, 21 and 18, was reportedly upset that the young lady had told him that they should end the relationship since she wanted to move on with her life.
She had endured what was said to be an abusive relationship. He was also peeved when he learnt that she was seeing someone else.
The man had given a statement that he and Oneka Greaves were together since she was 14 years.
A post mortem examination conducted by Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan at the New Amsterdam hospital showed that Greaves died from shock and haemorrhage due to multiple incised wounds and damage to vital organs including her kidney. She also sustained incised wounds to the spine, pancreas and diaphragm.
Robert Sandy was expected to return to court on June 26.
A release from the police stated that Robert Sandy died yesterday, at the New Amsterdam Prison.
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