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Lodge man charged with Patricia Sanasie’s murder
Three months after she was gunned down execution-style in front of her home, police have charged a man with the murder of Patricia Sanasie.
DEAD: Patricia Sanasie
Yesterday, Richard Stanton, 39, also known as ‘Ritchie’, of Princes Street, Lodge was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with the capital offence of murder. Particulars of the charge stated that on January 12, at 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara, he murdered Sanasie.
The defendant, who appeared very calm during the brief court hearing, was represented by Attorney Mark Waldron. He was remanded to prison after not being required to plead to the indictable charge.
He will make his next court appearance on May 4, at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.
Stanton was detained on Friday last and was positively identified by the woman’s daughter, who flew into Guyana on Saturday morning for that purpose before flying back to the United States of America a few hours later.
The man was previously detained shortly after the killing but was released after 72 hours when no one came forward to identify him.
At that time, Sanasie’s daughter who was with her in the car when she was murdered had left the country, citing safety concerns.
However, this newspaper understands that investigators arranged for the daughter to return briefly to Guyana to identify the suspect who was being constantly monitored.
Sanasie, who was the wife of Deokaran Sanasie, owner of Ram’s Auto Sales was killed by gunmen clad in black outside her home, January last. She was riddled with bullets as she stepped out of her car to open her gate for her daughter to drive in, after the two had returned from a church service. She was shot in the neck, chest, abdomen and groin. She was already dead when a resident and her daughter took her to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
The shooting occurred almost a year after her husband survived a similar attempt on his life.
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