Beverley Persaud and Oswald Junior Yaw, alleged mastermind and executer of the murder of Herstelling block maker Nathan Andrew Persaud, were yesterday charged jointly with the crime.
It is alleged that the widow had promised her co-defendant a sum of money to kill her husband, with whom she was in the midst of a property dispute.
The duo was initially charged separately; Yaw was arraigned on September 21st, while Persaud was read the charge on September 14th. When the two made their court appearance yesterday, however, Prosecutor Neville Jeffers withdrew the two charges and instituted the joint charge. Neither defendant was required to plead to the indictable charge.
Persaud and Yaw will return to court on October 20th, when they will make an appearance before Magistrate Judy Latchman, who will announce a date for the beginning of the preliminary inquiry into the charge.
On the morning of September 10th, Persaud was brutally murdered at his Herstelling home. His body was later discovered after a neighbour, overhearing screams coming from the residence and later seeing a strange man leave the premises, realised something may have been amiss.
Police have stated that the widow, after being held for questioning, had confessed to the role she’d played in her husband’s murder and fingered Yaw as her accomplice.
