Sattie Jagmohan, the West Coast Berbice woman who earlier this month accused her husband of forced her to drink a poisonous substance, has succumbed at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
Jagmohan, 27, a house-wife of Lot 24 ‘A’ Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice, was admitted to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital on February 9th after she ingested a poisonous substance.
However, Jagmohan, had told investigators that her husband, Ramesh Nandalall, 28, a fisherman, had threatened her with a cutlass as he forced her to drink the substance. He has since been charged with attempted murder but is expected to face a murder charge in light of the woman’s death.
Based on the initial investigation, the man was placed before Magistrate Peter Hugh at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged with attempted murder and remanded to prison.
The woman’s condition then took a turn for the worse and she was transferred to New Amsterdam Public Hospital, where she later succumbed on Wednesday.
Jagmohan had told investigators that Nandalall frequently abused her physically. She also said the man would often threaten to kill her if she told anyone about the abuse.
However, the woman claimed that on February 3rd, she was at home when her husband began to verbally and physically abuse her.
The man is alleged to have pushed her into a wall and then dealt her several kicks before placing a cutlass to her neck and giving her a bottle containing a liquid substance suspected to be the poison and instructing her to drink it. Out of fear the woman consumed the substance and was later rushed to the hospital where she was admitted.
Nandalall has denied the woman’s allegations.
