Woman charged over stabbing death of Better Hope ‘peacemaker’

A WOMAN who was held by police along with her reputed husband has been charged in the stabbing death of Bharrat Sugrim of 285 Better Hope North, East Coast Demerara, whose body was found on Sunday in a yard at South Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara.

She is expected to appear in court shortly.

A senior officer attached to Police ‘C’ Division confirmed to the Chronicle that, based on police investigations, the woman and her reputed were drinking when the two of them got into a fight. The officer said that Sugrim then got involved as a peace maker to part the fight when the woman reportedly stabbed him to his heart several times.

The police said that after both the woman and her reputed husband were taken into police custody for investigations, the woman confessed that she did the killing.

According to the senior officer, the woman is to be placed before the courts for the killing of the man while her husband will be charged for violent behaviour.

On Sunday, the police issued a release saying that “the police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Bharrat Sugrim, called “Lusty”, 37 years, of Better Hope, ECD, who was found in a yard at Cummings Lodge, ECD, with stab wounds to his chest, at about 1430hrs on Sunday August 24, 2014.

A man and a woman are in police custody assisting with the investigations.”