-in De Willem halted funeral case
A mother of three who allegedly murdered her reputed husband last week Friday was remanded to prison yesterday when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Forty-eight-year-old Lackrajie Sitaram, called ‘Lolyn’, of 224 Area ‘G’ De Willem, West Coast Demerara, was not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder.
It is alleged that on February 20 at her home, Sitaram murdered her reputed husband Bissondial Dhanpaul, also known as ‘Sona’ and ‘Malik’.
However, according to Sitaram, Dhanpaul suffered an accidental death. She said that “I does wuk selling de lil food and when I come home every day with de money he (Dhanpaul) use to thief it and spend it.” She noted that Dhanpaul was an alcoholic and that he was also unemployed.
Bissondial Dhanpaul
She said that on the day in question she was asleep when the sound of footsteps woke her up and “I see he (Dhanpaul) holding de tin that I does put me money in.” She stated that she asked him what he was doing with it and attempted to snatch it from him. Sitaram noted that he chucked her and it was when she chucked him back that he fell and hit his head on a piece of wood. She also stated that when he got up he went straight to the kitchen for a cup of water and that when she went to check on him he told her that “he nah feeling” good. She stated that she went back to the bedroom and when she returned to the kitchen sometime after, she shook him but he was already dead.
The magistrate subsequently ordered that Sitaram be remanded to prison and transferred the case to the Leonora Magistrate’s Court for March 3.
Dhanpaul was finally laid to rest yesterday.
According to the post-mortem report Dhanpaul died from blunt trauma. His funeral on Tuesday had also been halted because, according to a police press release, the force had received information that the incident might have been a case of murder.
Dhanpaul was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital last Friday, the press release stated and a medical certificate had given the cause of death as hypertension.
According to the police, Dhanpaul had complained of feeling unwell the day before he was taken to the hospital. However, based on new information received the police halted the man’s funeral and ordered a post-mortem.
The post-mortem was conducted by pathologist Nehaul Singh who gave the cause of death as “haemorrhage of the brain due to blunt trauma”. After the post-mortem results were released Sitaram and the son of Dhanpaul were taken into police custody.
Woman strike back!!!
I guess the shoe is on the other foot in this case! That something went wrong or some wrong was done is obvious but the mitigating evidence if any should shoe at the trial!!
it is sad a life has been lost…the woman should not be charged but should been counsel…it is an accident while trying to defend her hard earnings cash…..he’s dead and gone she’s giong to jail for some time…children left in the wilderness to fend for them selves..hope they are old enough to take care of them selves…
Read the editorial?? I posted a comment there.
are you kidding me Someone is dead…. DEAD Dead………..
defending cash…………………….I can believe you said that True
so sad, hope justice is served.
Let this woman go…go look for the rest of fineman gang and the fat cat drug lords..bring them to trial..this lady will not pick up an ak 47 and go into a community or people’s homes or on the street to rob rape and kill innocent people.
yea evil, i believe you’r saying that its ok for her to kill, now if this was your father or a close relative i wonder if you would say the same thing.
LET THE WOMAN GO !!! AS EVILEYES SAID ….. GO AFTER THE REST OF FINEMAN GAND AND THE DRUG TRAFFICERS. HIS RELATIVES SAID THAT HE WAS GETTING HIS SMALL-PIECE FROM ABROAD, DID HE CONTRIBUTE TO THE HOUSEHOLD, OR IT WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR HIM TO GET DRUNK EVERY DAY? THE COURT SHOULD CONSIDER THE WOMAN’S SITUATION. (MENTAL ABUSE)
tiger
yuh so filled with your crap…waste of time on you….
how my mom and dad got into this???
should i say the same for you mom?
and now to answer your stupid question…
my dad never robbed nor hit my mom….
so teck dat fuh yuh fasness…
Well said evil, let d woman go, it waz self/defence.
Murder is murder evil,,,you cannot get past the law with it…let the law take it’s course…
Soldier
i agree that murder is murder…but when you are being pushed and pushed again and again and your back is to the wall….
you got no other choice but to push back and come what may…
Hers is a sad case but I remember some here were supporting women commiting murder. Is the monster slowly growing?
Men and women in Guyana have always been killing one another at a fairly constant ratio of 4 women to 1 man.
What about the children , many of whom are losing parents as a result of domestic violence ??
I must continue to laud Min. Priya Manickchand for rescuing those four children of Pine Ground , Mahaicony Creek , from a rum drinking “father” . I am sure that they are now being treated well as wards of the ministry of human services and in time to come they will be reunited with their mother .
I wish that more could be done for dis-functional families before the senseless killings occur because the real victims are the children . Women should get out of relationships with men who love drinking alcohol and are addicted to it .
Mr. President , give the ministry of human services more money and staff so that many dis-functional families can get help before it is too late . Mr.President , you should also inform the police that their role is critical in order to prevent domestic violence from escalating , by removing the aggressors and offering protection to the victims , before the situations worsen .
It is better to light a candle , than to curse the darkness .
THIS WOMAN WAS THE BREAD WINNER……SHE WAS DEFINITELY CONFUSED AND FRUSTRATED OVER THE WHOLE SITUATION…..LET HER SENTENCE BE AS LIGHT AS POSSIBLE…LET THE COPS GET BUSY LOOKING FOR THE REAL MURDERERS WHO ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE AND ROBING THEM OF THEIR HARD EARNINGS