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Businesswoman strangled four years ago Main witness testifies at PI
As the matter of the murdered businesswoman, Sumintra Dinool, who was tied to her bed and strangled four years ago continued, the main witness took the stand to testify, yesterday.
Charged Malcolm Cully
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) is being conducted by Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The defendants are Malcolm Cully and Shaheed Alli. The latter died while on remand in prison for the offence two days after making his first appearance before the court.
The indictable charge alleged that the men between June 14, 2014 and June 15, 2014 at Barr Street, Albouystown, murdered Sumintra Dinool in the course or furtherance of a robbery.
Yesterday, the prosecution’s witness, Anthony Young, who is the main witness, was called to take the stand. His testimony was about a conversation he had with Cully about the murder.
When the two first appeared in court, Cully, 27, of Cooper Street, Albouystown threatened Alli, saying “You and your children will suffer.”
Two days later, Alli was beaten to death in prison by a group of inmates. From the brutal beating, the 30-year-old prisoner, of Albouystown, suffered a fractured skull and later died at the Georgetown Public Hospital where he had been admitted as a patient.
Reports of the murder of 65-year-old Sumintra Dinool indicated that the elderly woman was tied to her bed and strangled.
Dead Sumintra Dinool
Dinool lived alone with her son, who was out all night when the incident took place. Upon his return, he allegedly opened the front door with his keys, but did not notice anything amiss until he went into his room and found it ransacked.
He decided to check on his mother and found her dead with her hands bound and her mouth gagged. Robbery appeared to be the motive since electronic equipment, including a flat-screen television set and other items appeared to be missing.
However, some money was reportedly found in the slain woman’s bedroom. The perpetrators were never caught. But a few weeks ago, detectives returned to the case and acting on information, they took Cully, into custody.
Cully was freed just last year on an attempted murder charge. Alli was also taken into custody. He was recently released from prison on a narcotics charge, according to sources.
Kaieteur News understands that the two men provided information which implicated them in the robbery/murder.
Investigators were reportedly baffled at finding no visible sign of forced entry to the home. Mrs. Dinool had owned stalls in the Vendors’ Arcade and was said to have been security-conscious.
The victim had reportedly been living at the Albouystown property for about 46 years and had never been robbed.
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