The Ithaca man who allegedly fatally stabbed his former common-law wife last Thursday afternoon was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge after he appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court.
Jamal Angus, also known as ‘Country,’ 24, appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh via Skype on the charge that on Thursday, April, 23, he murdered Vanessa Benjamin, 21.
Angus, who was not required to plead to the charge, was remanded to prison and will return to court on June 10.
Last Thursday, around 5 pm, Angus arrived at Benjamin’s house, where he started an argument with her Benjamin after she refused to entertain him. He then began stabbing the young woman repeatedly after which he turned his attention to her mother, Debra Anibal, who attempted to intervene.
After stabbing both women, he then stabbed himself and fell to the ground.
A post-mortem examination was done by Dr. Nehaul Singh at Anthony’s Funeral Parlour and Benjamin’s cause of death was found to be “perforation of the heart and lung due to stab wounds”. She reportedly sustained 15 stab wounds.
Anibal has since been released from the New Amsterdam Public Hospital and she is at home recovering.
