Latest update April 7th, 2025 6:08 AM
Drug addict charged with mother’s murder
A drug addict who police say battered his mother to death, made his first court appearance
Murdered: Cecelia Madray
yesterday at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court.
Fifty-three year-old Terrence Madray, of Good Faith, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, had a charge of murder read to him by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell.
It is alleged that he murdered his 75-year-old mother Cecelia Madray at their home on April 21, last.
The woman was discovered lying on her blood-covered floor with a wound on her head that night, by members of the area’s Community Policing Group (CPG).
Clad in the same clothes he was wearing at the time of his arrest, the alleged killer, who was unrepresented by counsel was brought into the courtroom without much fuss, since many outraged villagers were unaware that he was being arraigned yesterday.
He stood quietly as the magistrate read the charge.
Police prosecutor, Corporal Sheryl Graham will present the case that on the fateful night, the CPG members were contacted after neighbours heard a commotion in Madray’s house.
When they went to the house and called out for Madray’s son, they got no answer.
They were left with no other alternative but to break the door to get in.
Once in, they made the gruesome discovery of the elderly woman lying on the floor covered by a mosquito net.
The CPG members were told she fell on the steps two days prior to her discovery.
However, the CPG members found no trace of blood on the stairs to support that story, and the woman’s son Terrence Madray who was in the house at the time was arrested and later charged, after a post mortem examination revealed that the woman’s death was caused by an inflicted blow to the head.
Terrence Madray was not required to plead and was remanded to prison until May 23rd when he will reappear at the Mahaicony Magistrate’s Court before the same magistrate.
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