Hours after he and his co-accused were remanded to prison for the 2014 murder of Albouystown businesswoman Sumintra Dinool, Shaheed Ally was on Tuesday fatally beaten by fellow inmates while in custody at the Lusignan Prison.
Sunday Stabroek understands that the fatal beating took place around 10.58 pm in Holding Bay 1 of the Lusignan Prison.
Ally, 30, a resident of Albouystown, sustained a fractured skull. He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he underwent surgery and was admitted in the male surgical ward. He succumbed to his injuries around 8.50 pm on Friday. While details surrounding the incident remain unclear, a prison official informed Sunday Stabroek that investigation revealed that Ally was allegedly attacked and beaten by fellow inmates, hours after he was transported to the prison.
The official said that an investigation is ongoing to determine the identity of the perpetrators.
On Tuesday, Ally and Malcolm Collie were jointly charged with the murder of Dinool, an elderly Albouystown businesswoman who was found dead in her home in 2014.
The duo appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty in a Georgetown Court.
The men, who were escorted into court separately in order to be read the joint charge against them, were not required to plead to the indictable offence and were remanded to prison.
Ally was unrepresented during the hearing, while Collie was represented by attorney Stanley Moore, who had requested that his client be kept at the Georgetown Prison.
It had been indicated that one of the men had implicated the other.
The body of Dinool, 65, was discovered by one of her sons in their home at the junction of Sussex and Barr streets.
The man had said that he opened the front door with his keys and had noticed nothing amiss until he went into his room and found it completely ransacked.
He made his way to her bedroom, where he discovered Dinool bound to her bed, and her hands and feet tied with telephone cables. Her mouth was also gagged.
