2013 High Reef murder trial… Son saw father choking mother

2013 High Reef murder trial… Son saw father choking mother – court hears

Aug 24, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

The murder trial of 34-year-old Prabhudyal Tarchand continued yesterday in the Berbice High Court before Justice JoAnn Barlow and a mixed Jury.
Tarchand called “Ramesh, “of High Reef, Albion, Corentyne, is accused of strangling his wife Geeta Devi ‘Diane’ Bissondyal, at their home on Sunday June 2nd 2013.
The court was told that the couple had lived together for eight years before the incident and the union had borne three children.
Attorney Stacy Goodings is presenting the state’s case. In her opening address, she told the court that on the day in question the couple got into a misunderstanding following a “third party relationship” (triangular love affair).
During the misunderstanding Tarchand killed Bissondyal and attempted to take his own life, but because of medical intervention he was saved. The woman’s lifeless body was discovered on a bed. She was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Tarachand was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital, before being taken to the Albion Police Station. He was subsequently taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he remained overnight.
Among those testifying was the nine year old son of the accused, who was deemed competent by the court.
Deoraj Tarchand told the court that he lives with his grandmother at Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice. During the time of the incident he lived at High Reef, Albion. He said on the day in question his father left to go to work, but returned sometime after. He (Deoraj) was watching television. He said his father came and carried his mother in the room. During the time he heard his mother go “ah, ah”.
He decided to peer inside the room and saw his father choking his mother. He screamed and his father loosed her. During the time, two of his cousins visited the house and he overheard his father telling his cousins that he gone dead tonight.
He and his siblings left and went by his grandmother later during the day where they spent the night.
The woman’s sister Shakuntala Seecharran called “Vashti “also took the witness stand.
She was at home when she was called by Brian Luke, a good friend of the couple, who told her to come because something had happened at the house.
She and Luke subsequently went to the house where they found Geeta Bissondyal lying motionless on a bed. Tarchand was found hanging in the house. He was cut down and rushed to the hospital. The police were subsequently informed.
The woman was subsequently grilled by defence Attorney Mursaline Bacchus.
Also testifying were prosecution main witness Brian Luke; the deceased woman’s parents, her father Indra Bissondyal and mother Khemranie Bissondyal; Detective Constable Emanuel Rajnauth who witnessed the post mortem examination; Constable Edmond Barlow who took the accused into custody; and Detective Corporal Primus Sam and Corporal Sherlock King who gave evidence during a voir dire. A preliminary Inquiry was held before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh in the Albion Magistrate’s court.
The matter is continuing.

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