Devon Limerick, who was being sought by the police for the murder of his reputed wife Pamela Mangru, turned himself over to the police yesterday afternoon, at the Springlands Police Station.
According to a police press release, the man remains in custody as the investigation continues.
Mangru was stabbed three times in the throat with her killer turning the knife and leaving a hole, from which she bled to death. The woman had some ten stab wounds about the body.
Thirty-one-year-old Limerick had reportedly calmly walked out of the New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop home after knifing the woman, who would have celebrated her 40th birthday last week Friday.
Relatives also alleged that the man had emptied her handbag of some $15,000 and removed the jewellery she was wearing.
Mangru, a mother of four, had endured years of abuse from her husband whom she divorced and subsequently struck up a relationship with Limerick. Relatives said the relationship was doomed from the inception but Mangru continued with the man despite their advice.
Limerick was said to be very possessive and would follow the woman wherever she went and if he could not do that he made sure he called her constantly on her cellular phone.
Her daughter Roxanne had told Stabroek News that the man was freeloading off her mother as she needed nothing from him and operated her own business. He, on the other hand, had a low-paying job with two young children to support. The woman had asked him to leave on several occasions but he said he would never leave her.
On the night in question, they were overheard arguing and some time after, Limerick was seen leaving the home after he had padlocked both the door and the gate. The woman’s landlord, suspecting something was amiss, contacted relatives and the police and when the door was kicked down by the lawmen the woman’s bloodied body was discovered.
The woman lived with her two older children and Limerick and operated a CD shop at the Vreed-en-Hoop stelling. Her other two children live with their father.