A 54-year-old man who was on Monday remanded to prison over allegedly attempting murder his wife was yesterday granted $200,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. The court had heard on Monday that on January 31 at Commerce Street, Georgetown Sahideen had stabbed his wife Kemwattie Bragwana several times about her body causing her to be hospitalised.
According to reports, Sahideen and his wife have been engaged in an ongoing dispute for approximately four months.
Sahideen, in his defence, explained to the court that Bragwana’s son, who is his stepson, had some time ago physically abused him inflicting wounds about various parts of his body. After the incident, he said, his stepson went into hiding. According to Sahideen, this matter escalated the level of tension between him and his wife and the woman asked him to leave their Commerce Street home before the present incident.
Bragwana who was present at court yesterday displayed various wounds. During the attack, she sustained a stab wound to her left shoulder and a chop to the back of her head, which had approximately eight stitches.
Attorney-at-law Vic Puran represented the accused, and yesterday he applied to the court for reasonable bail for his client, which was subsequently accepted.
Sahideen was placed on $200,000 bail and the matter will continue on February 27 in Court Six.
