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Murder of Non Pareil pensioner…No-case submissions made on behalf of daughter, 13, and taxi driver
Nineteen-year old Nalini Manikram and her 13-year old sister are accused of murdering their father Roger Manikram, whose body was found in a drain along the Coldingen Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara in April last year.
MURDER ACCUSED: Nalini Manikram
Charged jointly with them for the murder is 24-year-old Veeran Dais Lall also known as Adam, the boyfriend of Nalini Manikram, and Devon Browne, 24, of Crane, West Coast Demerara, the taxi driver who is alleged to have transported the body of the 64-year-old man.
Yesterday, before Magistrate Alisha George in the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts, Attorneys Dexter Todd and Collette Marks made no-case submissions on behalf of Browne and the 13-year-old murder accused respectively, when the Preliminary Inquiry continued.
During their submissions, both lawyers contended that Police Prosecutor Hattie Anthony failed to present sufficient evidence against their clients to establish the elements of murder.
The attorneys argued that their clients should not be called upon to answer to the charge, nor should they be committed to stand trial at the High Court for the indictable offence.
Prosecutor Anthony is scheduled to reply to the defence submissions on June 14.
There was no legal representation for Nalini Manikram and her boyfriend.
According to reports, the body of Roger Manikram was found on April 3, 2016, in a drain, several corners away from his Lot 237 Section B Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara home. There was reportedly a chop wound to the back of his head. A post mortem examination performed on his body revealed that he died as a result of brain haemorrhage due to blunt trauma to the head.
There are reports that the father was in the habit of harassing his daughters and they allegedly hatched a plan to kill him. After the pensioner was allegedly hit to the head with an axe by a male suspect, he collapsed to the ground. His body was then wrapped in plastic and dumped in the drain.
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