A Crabwood Creek man, who escaped to Suriname four years ago after reportedly murdering his wife, was yesterday charged with the capital offence after being nabbed due to his deportation from the neighbouring country.
Daveanand Albert, 50, was being processed at the Springlands Police Station when an alert police officer recognised him and he was immediately arrested.
He faced a charge yesterday at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court of murdering Esther Liloutie Albert, 44,
of Grant 1803 Crabwood Creek, Berbice on March 1, 2010. He has been remanded to prison. The matter has been transferred to the Springlands Court.
Results of a post-mortem examination had revealed that Esther died of manual strangulation.
Albert had been sent to the Springlands Police Station to report his wife’s death when he disappeared.
It was reported then that he had hit the woman with a broom, dealt her several slaps and also “choked” her before pushing her down the stairs. Esther started to bleed from a wound on her head.
Albert then picked her up and tried to wash off the blood and put her on the bed.
She remained there all night groaning in pain.
Early the following morning, after the woman appeared to be unconscious, the man sent his 12-year-old son to call his mother, who lived nearby, to see what had happened and to bring methylated sprits to try to revive the woman.
His mother had said that when she got to the house she lifted the woman’s hand and it fell and she realized she was dead.
After arranging to take the woman to the hospital where her death was confirmed, she gave the man money to go to the police station to make a report but did not hear from him after.
