A 23-year-old man was this morning charged with murdering his fiancée and dumping her body in a canal near her Nismes, West Bank Demerara home.
David Johnson of Norton Street appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs- Marcus at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison until April 2.
He is accused of murdering Leonaka Natasha Johnson between March 15 and 16.
At around 6 am on Saturday the body of the 20-year-old who was also called ‘Tasha’ of 17 River View, Nismes, was discovered floating in the nearby canal by persons in the area who alerted her relatives. The woman’s relatives said that she was last seen in the company of a policeman last Thursday night. They said that after she did not return home, they became worried as she was not the type to sleep out.
The policeman was later ruled out as a suspect by investigators.
Johnson, relatives said, was engaged to be married but was having some minor issues with her fiancé.
