Hotel murder suspect nabbed en route to Venezuela

The man who allegedly killed Maryann Nauth at a city hotel on Sunday was nabbed at Supenaam en route to Venezuela, police sources have confirmed. Vinod Balgobin was apprehended early Wednesday morning at the Supenaam Stelling by police on the Essequibo Coast. The alleged killer was spotted by officers who were conducting routine checks. Balgobin is currently in custody at the Aurora Police Station on the Essequibo Coast.

According to information reaching Guyana Times International, someone spotted him leaving Parika on Wednesday and contacted police on the Essequibo Coast to look out for him.
Balgobin has reportedly cooperated with detectives and gave relevant information, including confirming that he lives at La Penitence, Georgetown.
Balgobin has been identified as the main suspect in the murder of his 31-year-old reputed wife who was stabbed to death in a city hotel.
Police had visited his mother’s premises on several occasions at Albouystown with the intention of finding him, but to no avail. His mother reportedly told investigators that her son left home for work on Saturday and did not return. She was arrested, but later released.
Nauth also called “Baby” of 110 Vryheid’s Lust, North East Coast Demerara, was found lying on her back in the hotel with the murder weapon stuck in her chest.
The woman’s body, which bore about 28 stab wounds, was discovered by staff of the hotel sometime after 02: 00h on Sunday after they saw the door was left ajar. Nauth sustained stab wounds to her chest, breast and abdomen.
Reports are that the woman had checked in with a male companion at the hotel on Saturday evening, but by 02: 00h on Sunday morning, the man was seen leaving the establishment.
Indranie Bharat, the mother of the dead woman, on Monday disclosed that Nauth endured a lot of abuse from the time she ‘hooked up’ with Balgobin some 13 years ago. She explained that her daughter had separated from the man in the latter part of 2012, but he had been attempting to reconcile the relationship.
Meanwhile, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) in a statement said it is alarmed over the recent tragedy that befell two of the nation’s women on Mother’s Day – a day when the nation should have been celebrating its women.
Later that same day, a mother of seven burnt her home to the ground.