Latest update January 18th, 2025 4:46 AM
Cops re-arrest suspect in Kwakwani midwife’s murder
Seeking to crack the baffling murder of midwife Paulette Wade, detectives have once again turned their attention to an unemployed Kwakwani man who admitted to knowing the victim but has denied killing her.
The suspect’s first name is ‘Delon’, and he lives a short distance from the slain midwife. Police have reportedly received information that appeared to implicate him.
Kaieteur News understands that the man was arrested in Georgetown last week and brought to Kwakwani for further questioning.
The scene of the murder
Paulette Wade
He was among several who were arrested and released during the initial stages of the investigation. Police reportedly subsequently received further information and took him back into custody.
Investigators have ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing. Reports out of the community suggest that the 37-year-old midwife had received threats from another woman.
A woman was among those questioned.
Wade’s reputed husband was also briefly detained.
Last week, investigators returned to Kwakwani. They established that an intruder could have prised open the victim’s back door. There are suggestions that the killer was familiar with the layout of Wade’s house, since he reportedly switched off all the lights before attacking her in her bedroom.
Wade’s six-year-old daughter, who sleeps in the same bedroom, had reportedly awoken in darkness on October 25 to see a man, whom she could not recognize, attacking her mother, who had called out the name ‘Delon.’
The terrified child reportedly remained cowering in the bed and when morning came, saw her mother lying motionless on the floor.
She then went to a neighbour’s house, and accompanied by a nine-year-old, informed staffers at the Kwakwani Hospital.
A postmortem revealed that Wade was beaten and manually strangled.
Police are appealing to anyone with information that could assist in apprehending Wade’s killer to contact them, even if they do so anonymously.
Police contact numbers include 444-2222 (Kwakwani); 225-6411, 225-8196, 227-1149, 226-7065, 911 or the nearest police station.
Persons can also contact Kaieteur News journalist Michael Jordan anonymously on 645-2447, or [email protected].
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