Woman in Mazaruni torching turns herself over to police

Malcolm Lancaster

The woman who allegedly set her husband alight in the Mazaruni area on Friday morning has turned herself over to the police and charges are expected to be laid shortly.

Relatives of the woman told Stabroek News yesterday that she turned herself over to police officers who had travelled to the Ikawan Backdam in the Mazaruni last weekend to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Forty-five-year-old Malcolm Lancaster of Rosignol, West Coast Berbice and of D’Urban Street in the city succumbed to burn injures at the