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“Crab Man’ to face judge and jury for abducting ex-lover
Forty-three year-old Shamar Mohamed called ‘Crab Man’, a taxi driver of No 71 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, will have to face a judge and jury. He has been committed to stand trial in the next sitting in the Berbice criminal court. This was after Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh, sitting in the Springlands Magistrate’s Court, ruled that a prima facie case has been made out against him. He was on trial for the offence of abduction, contrary to Section 4 of the Kidnapping Act, Chapter 10.05.
Particulars of the charge state that on January 5, 2015, at Number 70 Village, Corentyne, he abducted 23-year-old Bhartie Udho, a school teacher of No. 70 village, with intent to secretly or wrongfully confine her.
Mohammed, who is represented by Attorney at law Chandra Sohan, was refused bail and remanded to jail. He is facing a number of additional charges including two counts of attempted murder committed on the same woman.
The two had previously shared a relationship, but that relationship ended after the woman discovered that Mohammed was a married man. However, the man did not give up and continued to bother the woman, and had developed a habit of stalking her and forcing her into his car. He would then drive to bushy areas along the upper Corentyne coastline, where he would keep her against her will.
On the day in question at about 12.30hrs, the complainant’s younger sister, had accompanied her to the village bus stop, where she caught a minibus to take her to school.
Shamar Mohamed called ‘Crab Man’
However, the man, who was hiding nearby, pounced on the woman and pulled her from the back seat of the bus.
Despite the intervention of other passengers, Mohammed removed the woman and took her to his backyard which had overgrown bush. He subsequently ordered her to use his cellular phone to telephone the Springlands Police station, and inform them that she had willingly left with him. However the phone credit ran out and the call was disconnected.
Mohammed then left to purchase additional credit, during which time the woman used the opportunity to contact her parents, before escaping.
The man is also charged with chopping Udho on December 24, 2016, with intent to murder her. The wound severed her left hand. He is also charged with chopping Udho’s mother Amika Udho with intent to murder her.
In another charge he is accused of assaulting Alicia Ali, causing her actual bodily harm.
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