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Couple arrested for drinking buddy’s death’…Woman allegedly confesses to stabbing victim
A Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) woman has allegedly confessed to the murder of 37-year-old Bharrat Sugrim,
Dead: Bharrat Sugrim
whose lifeless body was found with a stab wound to his heart, at the back of her two-bedroom house on Sunday.
The woman and her reputed husband were taken into police custody after the body of the Better Hope, ECD man was discovered by neighbours lying motionless on the muddy ground, next to the couple’s outhouse.
According to the police, the woman claimed that she and her husband got into a heated argument which eventually led to a fight, and Sugrim, who acted as a peacemaker, was wounded in the process.
She further claimed that the incident occurred on the verandah of her Lot 355 South Cummings Lodge home, and the wounded man went to use the outhouse where he eventually collapsed.
The police source said that the woman would most likely be charged with Sugrim’s murder, while her husband of nine years will be charged with violent behaviour.
“Once the PM (post mortem) is done tomorrow (today) a file will be sent to the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) for advice,” the police source said.
When this newspaper visited the area on Monday, the couple’s neighbours claimed that they consume alcohol daily and would usually attack each other.
“This is normal. They drink, dance and cuss up each other. They are not living a nice life at all. Every day, the two of them are drunk. The husband does security work when he feels like and the wife does domestic work,” one neighbour had said.
She added that she was watching television when she heard a loud noise but did not pay much attention, since this is common occurrence. “I just ignored them because when you watch over there, the man does cuss you up.”
The neighbour said that several hours after she heard a loud commotion, she noticed the police in the couple’s yard with persons crying and shouting, “Ow, you kill my brother, you kill he.”
Another neighbour said that she heard someone groaning in the couple’s outhouse, and then she heard one of the suspects crying and after sometime she saw the police arrive.
The mother of the detained man told Kaieteur News that she was told that her son and his wife were fighting and Sugrim, who tried to separate them, was stabbed.
She further explained that based on what she was told; the man was stabbed in the couple’s verandah, but collapsed near the outhouse, after going there to relieve himself.
“My son’s wife drinks a lot every day. They have two children together and I take care of them. If the children have money she would take it away and buy rum. She stabbed my son countless times and he still won’t leave her,” the woman claimed.
Investigations are ongoing.
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