Deonarine Sawh, called ‘Boyzie’, of Plantation Hope, ECD yesterday appeared in court over the murder of a Belfield Squatting Area woman.
Sawh was arrested on 2023/01/25 and charged yesterday (2023-02-02) with murder, the police said.
The accused appeared at the Vigilance Magistrate Court before Magistrate. Fabayo Azore where the charge was read to him. He was not required to plead and was remanded to prison. The case was postponed until 14th March, 2023 for report.
Sawh was captured on January 25, 2023 after a Wanted Bulletin was issued for him in relation to the murder of Nazaleen Mohamed at Hope Lowlands, East Coast Demerara.
According to police report, the woman had left her Belfield squatting area, ECD home on JY 23RD at about 7 am to visit her brother at Lowlands, ECD, but was later discovered dead in a canal with stab wounds about her body.
The victim’s nephew, Mohamed, in an interview yesterday with Stabroek News, said that his aunt had left home on January 23rd to visit her brother at approximately 7 am on Monday.
Mohammed said that Nazaleen’s daughter had been unwell and before she left home she told her two neighbours, considered family friends, that she was going to visit her brother and to watch over her daughter. “She tell the person to take care of the daughter because she was going by her brother. After she would have left around seven o’clock and hours passed he decide to ring her phone. Prior to that her son receive a phone call from her and a well-known voice was on the call and ask he if he know who he talking to and the son answered and said ‘yes’. In the background he hear he mother say, ‘come leh meh talk to meh son, give meh meh phone’ and the phone cut off.”
A few minutes after 3 pm, one of the neighbours who was asked to watch over the daughter decided to go to where Nazaleen’s brother lived.
“So like after three, the guy who did watching over for she decide to head to where her brother is living and somebody was grazing cow so he walk down the dam the line top side, then is when the person that was grazing the cow seh `boy look somebody deh down in the trench’. The neighbour recognized her by the top she had on. He run and go to her brother residence but the brother was not at home. Neighbours make contact with her brother and them come and find her floating in the trench with multiple chop wounds”, Nazaleen’s nephew said.
Nazaleen was the mother of four children. She had ended her relationship with her ex-lover – Sawh – early last year.