Former vendor, Nathan Stoute, is now awaiting sentencing for the 2014 killing of Cuyuni shop owner Bibi Sheniza Khan-Bhola who was stabbed during a robbery at her business premises.
Stoute at his arraignment on Monday before the High Court at Suddie, pleaded guilty to murdering the woman between February 26 and 27, 2014, at Rock Creek, Cuyuni River.
Justice Jo-Ann Barlow has, however, deferred sentencing to December 7th to facilitate the preparation and presentation of probation and other social impact reports.
Khan-Bhola, a 34-year-old mother of two, was found stabbed to death in her shop at Rock Creek, Cuyuni River, in February 2014.
It had been previously reported that the day before Khan-Bhola’s body was found, she had a heated argument with two men over a pump she had given them for mining.
Afterward, police had issued a wanted bulletin for Stoute, of Helena No. 2 Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.
He was one of two men who had been staying with the woman around the time she was killed and who police had always treated as the prime suspects.
Khan-Bhola’s family believes that the men hatched a plan to murder her because she wanted to take back the pump she had loaned them.
They had said the two suspects were fired by their employer and had no job.
Khan-Bhola subsequently decided to loan a pump to them with the expectation that they would pay her for it.
Things turned sour when the duo decided that they wanted to take the pump to another location even though they had given her no money.
