Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Wife-killer hangs himself in N/A Prison
After serving almost three years of his 76-year jail sentence, a prisoner lost all hope yesterday and hanged himself in his cell at the New Amsterdam Prison.
Kaieteur News understands that at 15:30hrs, Ramesh “Bobby” Muniram was released to go to the recreational area of the prison for his dinner and returned to his cell about five minutes later.
Shortly after, Prison officials upon checking his cell, found the wife-killer hanging from a rope connected to a window at the back of his cell.
The couple in their younger days
Prison authorities are currently investigating the matter.
Back in October 2013, Muniram was found guilty for the brutal murder of his wife, Sunita August on January 14, 2010 at Nismes, West Bank Demerara.
He had appeared before Justice Singh at the High Court, who told him that since the Judiciary can now impose an alternative to the death penalty for murder, he would be sentenced to 60 years for murder, an additional five years because he premeditated to kill his wife, five more years because he proceeded with such brutality and six years for the domestic violence involved in the matter.
But judging from Muniram’s actions yesterday, it would appear that he would have preferred the death penalty.
According to court documents, Muniram of Lot 5 Vauxhall, Canal Number 1 Polder, West Bank Demerara poisoned his wife, before strangling her to death.
Details into the case revealed that Muniram’s wife ingested a poisonous substance concealed in a Pepsi bottle which he had given to her.
As the poison took effect, the woman started to ‘fight up’ and fell into a nearby canal, Muniram went after her, choked her until she was lifeless and then hid her body under stuff in the canal.
Muniram had told the court that he and his wife had just finished having sexual intercourse, when she decided to go to a koker at Nismes canal to bathe. The man told the court that his wife fell into the koker and in an attempt to save her, he went for a piece of stick, since he could not swim but when he returned he could not find her.
Muniram said that he left the area and told his mother what had happened. He said that he was afraid and confused and thus went into hiding.
Among the witnesses called upon to testify in the matter were State Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh and Sharin Cumberbatch, a Medex attached to the Georgetown Prisons.
According to the autopsy report presented to the court, August died from asphyxiation due to drowning. The coroner reported that the woman’s body bore compressed injuries to the neck. At the time of her death, August was the mother of three young children.
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