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Psychiatric evaluation ordered on watchman charged with waitress’ murder
A 38-year-old watchman of No.4 Village, West Coast Berbice, yesterday appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of murdering Marissa Rehana Fraser, a waitress of the same village.
Odit Thom stood before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver as the charge was read to him. He was unrepresented and not required to plead to the indictable charge. The Magistrate also ordered that Thom be given a psychiatric evaluation. He was remanded to prison and is set to return to court on January 24, 2018.
According to the facts of the case, between December 3 and December 4, Odit Thom, murdered 22-year-old Marissa Fraser. Her body was found submerged in a trench by a passerby with multiple stab wounds. She was also semi-nude at the time of the discovery. A pair of scissors with blood stains was also found near the body.
Thom was arrested the same day along with three others, and under intense questioning, he confessed to investigators that he committed the brazen act.
Killed: Marissa Fraser
The accused, Odit Thom
He told investigators that he was in the company of Fraser and two other males at a wedding reception at No.4 Village West Coast Berbice when she left with a male around midnight. Fraser’s relatives said that she returned home around midnight but it appeared as though someone was waiting on her so she left again.
Thom further told ranks that he saw the waitress walking alone along the No.5 Public Road when he approached her and made sexual advances. It was her rejecting his advances that ‘ticked him off’ he told ranks.
A scuffle between him and Fraser ensued and he pulled out the scissors he had on his person and stabbed her 11 times about her body. He then dumped her body in the trench located in a street, near to a burial ground.
A Post Mortem examination conducted on Fraser’s body revealed that she died as a result of asphyxia and drowning compounded by multiple incise wounds. Government Pathologist Nehaul Singh carried out the autopsy at Anthony’s Funeral Home, Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice.
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