Suspect in murder of woman at Mahdia captured

Jul 24, 2022 News

Kaieteur News – Police have managed to capture an alleged arsonist who is wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of a 55-year-old-woman at Mahdia, Region Eight.

Captured, Dexter James

The wanted man, 48-year-old Dexter James also known as Limuel Alphonso, was arrested by police on Friday and is being held in Georgetown.

Detectives believe that he is a key person in assisting them to solve the murder of Nariman Latifan, an Essequibo woman who was found brutally murdered on July 6, last.

Latifan, better known as “Nari”, had gone missing from her Salbura backdam home on July 5, last. Her hammock was chopped down, and the house she shared with her husband, ransacked.

Blood stains were seen on their veranda and burnt body parts were found a short distance behind the house. A day later detectives found her battered remains disposed in an area close by. It is suspected that someone had beaten her and then used a rope or a chord to strangle her.

Murdered, Nariman Latifian

Police believe that her killer could be a miner who she and her husband had given shelter to sometime ago. Police suspect that the alleged arsonist might have knowledge about her gruesome death.

James is said to be a notorious character in the mining town. He is accused of wounding someone and setting a house on fire at Mahdia. Police had issued a wanted bulletin for him in June this year, stating that he had committed those offences in September 2021.

Somehow he managed to elude police in that district and was reportedly a menace to Mahdia residents since. One individual said that the alleged arsonist had threatened him during an argument they had some time back before running away.

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