A 21-year-old man was on Tuesday sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the 2008 murder of a 79-year-old Wakenaam, Essequibo Island woman.
Latchman ‘Saramakatoy’ Persaud was found guilty of murdering Dhanwantie, known as `Auntie’, at Sans Souci, Wakenaam between May 25 and 26. The woman was found dead in her home by neighbours who had noticed her front door open and upon checking found her lying on her bedroom floor in a pool of blood.
Justice Winston Patterson handed down the sentence when the trial concluded at the Suddie High Court, stating that
