Mark Ifill, the 49-year-old husband of Bibi Ifill, whose body was discovered at the bottom of a well on Monday morning, appeared in a Barbadian court yesterday and was remanded on a wounding with intent charge which is likely to be upgraded next week to murder.
Ifill of St James, appeared before Magistrate Ian Weekes and was not required to plead. An autopsy on Bibi Ifill’s body is still to be done and this will likely lead to the murder charge against Ifill.
The accused man reported his wife missing on August 15.
On Sunday he took Barbados Police to the place where he had buried his wife. Police found the body on Monday around 6am.
According to a report in the Barbados Nation yesterday, the man, a 49-year-old sub-contractor, had dumped his wife’s body at the bottom of a 20-foot well at the rear of the couple’s Porters, St James home.
“The body, partially decomposed, was removed from the well, which was sealed and concealed by a makeshift shed,” the Nation’s report said. Police and firemen spent all of Tuesday morning trying to pull the body from the well, the report further stated.
On Monday, Ali’s sister, Zarfana Bacchus, recalled a history of abuse Ali had endured at the hands of her husband since she married him one month after they met.
Ali is suspected to have been murdered on Sunday, August 15. According to Ali’s sister, Ali and the man were going through a divorce.
