Seventy-year-old Gordon Leslie Durant was remanded to prison on Friday after being charged with the murder of his wife, Joan Durant, at Melanie North, East Coast Demerara (ECD) last week.
The body of the 50–year-old woman was discovered buried in an unfinished bathroom at the couple’s home last Thursday evening.
The man was unrepresented when he appeared before Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court last Friday.
The body of the woman was discovered by the police several days after she went missing.
The man had told investigators that his wife had packed a bag and walked out of the house on Tuesday afternoon.
However, the woman’s relatives did not believe him and they subsequently lodged a missing person’s report and launched a search for her.
Police investigators revisited the family’s home on Thursday evening after relatives informed that a stench was coming from the house. The woman’s body was subsequently discovered buried in sand in the unfinished structure.
Gordon Durant will make his next court appearance on July 30.
