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Jul 01, 2015 News
Self-proclaimed spiritualist Patricia Alves, who was convicted ten years ago for causing a woman’s death during an ‘exorcism’ is in trouble again.
This time she is charged with attempted murder, after what is allegedly another failed exorcism attempt.
Alves, who now goes by the name Patricia Grenville, had relocated to Berbice since being released from prison.
It is alleged that on Wednesday, June 17, at Lot 157 Smythfield, New Amsterdam Berbice, she unlawfully and maliciously wounded 75-year-old Jean Joyce Dean with intent to murder her.
Grenville (Alves) appeared yesterday before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court and was remanded. She is scheduled to return to court on July 20.
According to Prosecutor Corporal Desiree Pilgrim, the two women lived at the same address. Grenville lived in the upper flat while Dean occupied the bottom flat.
It was related that Grenville introduced herself to Jean Dean as a spiritualist who could cast out demons. She allegedly stated that Dean needed spiritual healing and offered to provide the treatment for her.
According to Corporal Pilgrim, the elderly woman subsequently became ill and asked Grenville to heal her. But Dean related how she was constantly beaten with all sorts of implements, including a hammer and cutlass. She also claimed that she was sent to beg on the road and all the money she would collect would be taken away from her by Grenville.
Dean was allegedly also told by Grenville that due to her being unclean, the ‘spirits’ had left Grenville, and that Dean would have to help bring them back.
After Dean was beaten she was allegedly threatened and told to lie about how she had sustained her injuries. Dean’s son subsequently visited his injured mother and took her to his home. It was also claimed that Grenville told the woman’s son that his mother sustained her injuries while cooking. Dean was treated at the Fort Wellington Hospital.
The matter was subsequently reported to the police and Grenville was arrested and charged.
In 2005, after a highly publicised trial Patricia Alves called ‘Mother Alves’ and ‘Sister Pat’, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in jail by Justice Claudette Singh.
Alves was charged back then for the murder of a woman who the ‘spiritualist’ had beaten to death under the guise of beating out demons from her.
The victim, 32-year-old Parbattie Camille Seenauth, was found buried in a shallow grave in the spiritualist’s yard in Alberttown. That woman had died from strangulation and sexual assault, and there were other marks of violence about her body, including evidence of bludgeoning to the forehead.
Seenauth had moved in with Alves in November 2001.
It was understood that the relationship between Seenauth and Alves was amicable at first, until Seenauth became the victim of daily beatings.
A neighbour, who was one of the prosecution witnesses, told the court that she called the police after peeping through a fence and seeing Alves beating Seenauth with an iron pipe.
While Alves was in prison, her house suddenly caught fire and burnt to the ground.
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