A labourer appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with the murder of Morasi resident, Naiomi Singh and was remanded to prison.

Rudolph Williams

Rudolph Williams of Morasi, East Bank Essequibo was not required to plead to the capital offence of murder. It is alleged that last Friday, at Morasi he murdered Singh. The woman’s murder has stunned the small riverain village of about sixty residents. She was discovered by her father, Mohan Singh, who pulled her body from a drain, where it was covered by a thin layer of slushy mud on Friday night.

Police, in a press statement had said that Singh, who was to have been married shortly, was home alone that day. Her father returned home and discovered her missing; a search was conducted and Naiomi’s body was found at approximately 9 pm. A post-mortem examination on Monday revealed that she died from shock and haemorrhage due to an incised wound on her neck.

Naiomi Singh

Williams reportedly worked with the victim’s father up to the time of the incident and “disappeared” shortly after the young woman’s body was discovered.

The man, residents had told this newspaper, had recently returned to Morasi and was living with close relatives.
He will return to court on June 18 at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.