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Couple guilty of fatally stabbing relative at Skull City
MURDER ACCUSED: Nyron Thakurdyal
Their appearance throughout their trial was perhaps the only time Vishwantie Ragnauth and her reputed husband, Nyron Thakurdyal, spent time together, following the demise of her uncle who was stabbed to death on Boxing Day 2014.
In fact, the couple was yesterday convicted of the killing almost four years, after police brought charges against them for the murder of Sunil Ramsundar, Ragnauth’s uncle.
Ragnauth also known as ‘Shelly’, and Thakurdyal, called ‘One Eye’, were found guilty by a 12-member mixed jury who returned unanimous guilty verdicts with respect to the two who were charged separately for the murder. The killing occurred at Skull City, Patentia, West Bank Demerara.
However, although they were convicted by the jury, Justice Sandil Kissoon did not proceed to sentence them to a term of imprisonment. This was after their Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes requested that probations reports in favour of his clients be tendered in court. The lawyer cited his client’s unblemished criminal record as a reason for requesting the report.
The request was granted by trial judge Sandil Kissoon who adjourned the matter to Tuesday, June 26, for presentation of probations reports. The case for the prosecution was presented by State Counsel Lisa Cave in association with State Counsel Orinthia Schmidt. The now convicted killers were tried at the High Court in Georgetown.
In her opening remarks, Prosecutor Orinthia Schmidt had told the court that Ramsundar is an uncle of Ragnauth, the number one accused in the murder trial. The Prosecutor said that on the day in question, there was a family problem which resulted in an altercation between Ramsundar and his niece.
According to the prosecutor, Ragnauth held on to her uncle, while her reputed husband stabbed him with a knife.
It was revealed that Ragnauth also stabbed her uncle. Ramsundar was pronounced dead at the hospital, the Prosecutor added.
Declaring her innocence, Ragnauth had told the court that around 14:30hrs on the day in question, her uncle, Sunil, (her mother’s brother) came to her residence and requested to speak with her mother. She recounted telling her uncle that her mother was not at home, after which, she inquired from him what he wanted to talk to her mother about.
According to the murder accused, her uncle told her that he had wanted some money from her mother, and later left and returned sometime after in a drunken state.
”When I went to speak with him (Sunil) he began cursing up and Nyron (her reputed husband) came out by the door,” Ragnauth said. She said, too, “Me and Nyron went inside and Sunil went away.”
Ragnauth told the jury that her uncle later returned to her home and called out for her. “I went out to him and he start cuss me up and I cuss he back. He push me into the fence and I started screaming and Nyron came out and pull he away.” She added that she and her spouse later went to the police station and reported the incident.
Asserting his innocence, Thakurdyal said that he arrived at Patentia at around 20:30hrs on December 26, 2014.
He said that he and his spouse were standing on a dam when her uncle came and began “cussing” her.
He added that during that time, he grabbed Ragnauth’s hand, and together, they walked away and went to her home.
According to Thakurdyal, about 22:30hrs Ramsundar came to the house and called out for Ragnauth, who went out and spoke with him. He recounted that a while after, he heard his spouse screaming and ran out to see what was happening.
Thakurdyal told the court that he saw when Ramsundar held on to Ragnauth’s hands before bracing her to a fence. He added that he grabbed his spouse which resulted in Ramsundar falling, hitting himself on the fence. Justice Kissoon will sum up the evidence in the trial tomorrow before sending the matter to the jury for deliberation on a verdict.
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