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Husband to stand trial ‘head in bucket’ murder
Thirty one-year-old Vindra Siriram has been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court for the murder of his
Accused: Vindra Siriram
reputed wife, Shellyann Persaud.
Siriram is charged with murdering the mother of his three children by strangling and suffocating her in a bucket of water at their Friendship, East Bank Demerara residence, between June 9 and June 10, this year.
Persaud, a housewife, was on June 10, last, found at the bottom of the back stairs of the couple’s premises. Her head was partly submerged in a five-gallon bucket of water.
According to reports, the couple’s eight-year-old daughter had told relatives that she heard her parents arguing some time before the murder. The child reportedly also claimed to have seen her father beating her mother and pulling her hair while saying to her, “Tonight is the last night you will see your mother.”
Following the discovery of the woman’s body, a report was made by the family to the police. Subsequent investigations led to Siriram being taken into custody and charged for his wife’s murder.
On June 13, he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. He has been in custody ever since and the Preliminary Inquiry started on Monday.
During the pre-trial proceeding, the court heard testimony from the couple’s eight-year-old daughter, the sister of the deceased, Sherry Persaud, the couple’s neighbour, Iris Dillon, Detective Constable, Rohan Baksh, Detective Constable Chaitram Seeram, Detective Constable Mark Gaspar, Constable Maxwell Grant of CID Headquarters’ Photographic Branch and Constable Marks.
At the end of a three-day committal hearing yesterday, Police Inspector, Michael Grant closed the Prosecution’s case. Siriram’s lawyer Keavon Bess, in response, told Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry however that the Prosecution had no case against his client.
The magistrate ruled that a Prima Facie case of murder had been made out against the accused. When Siriram was asked if he had anything to say in his defence, he remained silent.
The Magistrate informed that she will be sending him before a judge and jury to stand trial for murder. The commencement date of the trial is yet to be fixed.
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