MURDEROUS WOMEN? Girl, 12, among five charged in two months

Jun 13, 2016 News

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Two sisters accused of killing their father. A daughter charged for soliciting a hit-man to kill her dad. A wife allegedly puts out a hit on her husband…two teenage girls are charged for allegedly killing an elderly man…

Women are frequently the victims of heinous crimes, but, of late, there appears to be a rise in cases of females being fingered as the perpetrators in some quite violent crimes.
Between last April and May alone, five females, including three girls aged 17, 15 and 12, have been charged with murder.
Prior to this, there were women like Kathleen Fullerton, hanged in the fifties, along with her husband, Edward Fullerton and accomplice Eric Benfield, for the sacrificial murder of a little girl. There was the infamous ‘shallow grave murder trial’ of the eighties, in which Evelyn Dick was convicted, and later pardoned, for the murder of her ‘child father,’ who was shot and buried in a Kaikan Street, Festival City backyard.
There was also Shireen Khan, who assisted two men in the brutal rape and murder of 18-year-old Roshana Kassim, during a robbery at her parent’ home, some 31 years ago.

 

More recently, there was self-proclaimed ‘spiritualist Patricia Alves, who was convicted in 2005 for killing a female client, Parbattie Camille Seenauth, and burying the victim in her Alberttown yard.
A look at the year 2014 shows that in August of that year, Angela Khan, of South Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, was charged with murdering 37-year-old Bharrat Sugrim, who was stabbed to death at the residence of the accused.
Khan had also pleaded guilty to wounding her husband on the same day that Sugrim was slain.
On January 31, 2014, the body of 55-year-old housewife Donna Taylor was found in her yard at Lot 16-17 Agricola, East Bank Demerara. A post mortem later conducted showed that Taylor had suffered blunt trauma to the head, as well as injuries to the neck and other parts of the body. Death was due to shock and haemorrhage.
Samantha Sabatt, a British national who was a guest of the victim, was subsequently found lying unconscious in the front yard.
Twenty-two-year-old Abiola Jacobs, a former rank of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), was subsequently arrested and charged for allegedly killing Donna Taylor.

The accused was the girlfriend of one of Taylor’s sons.
Then on May 21, 2015, 21-year-old Renita Thomas ended up dead from stab wounds shortly after leaving a West Bank Demerara resort with other friends.
One of those friends, 17-year-old Angelique Williams, was arrested and charged for her best friend’s murder.
And in the past few months, several women were fingered in the murders of their spouses and even of blood-relatives.
On September 10, 2015, Nathan Persaud, a 42-year-old block maker, was stabbed and clubbed to death in his Herstelling, East Bank Demerara residence.
A month later, police arrested and charged the slain man’s wife, 46-year-old Beverly Persaud with his murder. Charged with her was 21-year-old Oswald Junior Yaw, who she allegedly hired to kill her spouse.
Early last April, 18-year old Nalini Manikam and her 12-year old sister were escorted into the Sparendaam Magistrates Court, to face a charge for allegedly murdering their father, 64-year-old Roger Manikam.

Charged with them were the boyfriend of the older sister, 21-year-old Veeran Dias Lall, also known as Adam, and his friend taxi driver, Devon Browne, 23, of Crane, West Coast Demerara.
The body of Roger Manikam, of Lot 237 Section B Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, was found on the Coldingen Railway Embankment on April 3, 2016. The victim bore a wound to the head. A length of cord was also wrapped around the body.
A month later, two other teenage girls were again linked to a sordid murder case.
That happened on May 12, after 75-year-old Pairadeau Mars, a retired professor and remigrant from the US, was found bound, gagged and beaten to death in the study room of his Lot 395 Bissessar Street, Prashad Nagar home.
The following day, police arrested five teens in connection with Professor Mars’ murder. Among them were two girls, aged 15 and 17, and three young men. They have since been charged.
It was in May, also, that police made arrests in the February, 2008 murder of 76-year-old businessman Habiboodeen, who died after being brutally beaten at his Ruby, East Bank Essequibo home.
Among those arrested and charged in the alleged property dispute killing were the businessman’s daughter, Bibi Nazeela Habiboodeen, 50, of 111 Ruby, East Bank Essequibo, Linden Lewis, 29, of Vergenoegen East Bank Essequibo, and Lewis’s uncle, Michael London.

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