Ruling looms for sisters accused of killing father

Jun 15, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Magistrate Alisha George will, on June 27, rule whether or not a prima facie case has been made out against 19-year-old Nalini Manikram and her 13-year-old sister, who are both charged with the murder of their father, Roger 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, also 24, of Crane, West Coast Demerara, the taxi driver who is alleged to have transported the body of the 65-year-old man.
When the Preliminary Inquiry continued yesterday in the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts, Police Prosecutor Hattie Anthony replied to no-case submissions made by Attorneys-at-Law Dexter Todd and Collette Marks who are representing Brown and the juvenile murder accused respectively.
At the previous court hearing, both lawyers during their submissions argued that Prosecutor Anthony failed to present sufficient evidence against their clients to establish the elements of murder. The attorneys said 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.
According to reports, the body of the senior 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 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 reportedly wrapped in plastic and dumped in the drain.

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