Marlon Braithwaite, the man who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend Sharmin McKay causing her death, appeared before the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Braithwaite, of Buxton, East Coast Demerara, was not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder when it was read to him by Magistrate Sherdell Isaacs.
It is alleged that on June 10 at Bachelor’s Adventure Backlands (Bare Root) the accused repeatedly stabbed McKay inflicting wounds that resulted in her death on Monday.
Magistrate Isaacs remanded Braithwaite to prison and he next appears in court on July 17.
McKay was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on June 10 by neighbours. The woman had sustained multiple stab wounds and shortly before her death had alleged she’d been forced to swallow kerosene by the accused.
The 32-year-old woman was a patient of the hospital’s High Dependency Unit until last Saturday morning. McKay was transferred to GPH’s Female Surgical Ward where she succumbed to her wounds on Monday.
