Murder charges to be laid… Wife lied to cops to save husband before she died

May 11, 2017 News

In what can be described as a scene out of a Shakespeare play, so was the story of a couple who lived together in their Grant 1803 Crabwood Creek home.
Chanmonie Charlie well known as ‘Pelo’, 55-years-old, a few days ago told relatives that she had stabbed herself after an argument with her husband, Rishee Lakhraj, 62. She is now dead.
However, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, speaking with Kaieteur News, revealed that the woman’s husband who was taken into police custody, under intense interrogation, confessed to stabbing his wife.
The Crime Chief told Kaieteur News that Lakhraj, after confessing to the crime, was taken for a psychiatric examination. He was subsequently deemed fit to stand trial and thus will be charged with the murder of his wife.
The man told investigators that (he and his wife) were imbibing some “white rum” Friday night when an argument erupted between them. The argument escalated and he retreated to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and plunged it into the woman.
The man told investigators that after he had committed the act he contemplated suicide.
However, his wife told him she would say that the stab wound was a self-inflicted one.
She then ran to her relatives, living a stone’s throw away and told them that she had “stabbed herself”.
Relatives who spoke to reporters had stated that they had to convince the woman to seek medical treatment, to which she agreed the following day. Upon her first visit to the Skeldon Public Hospital, relatives reported that the doctors at the institution did not treat the stab wound but rather gave her an injection and “some medication” and sent her away.
Charlie succumbed to her injury on Monday. Relatives accused the hospital of being negligent, they argued that if she had received proper medical care at the health institution her life could have possibly been saved.
A sister-in-law of the woman had also told reporters that Charlie had a drinking problem and her husband Lakhraj would sometimes request that she stop the heavy imbibing.
However, sources revealed to this publication that Charlie and her husband would regularly imbibe together at their home and arguments were frequent when the two were intoxicated, but this time around one of those arguments ended tragically.
A post mortem will be conducted shortly to determine the cause of death.

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