The 19-year-old Tiffany Clarke who stabbed to death her 25-year-old lover, Senobia Haynes, made an emotional appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Monday.
In tears, the Lot 97 Hadfield Street, Georgetown woman entered the courtroom as her mother wailed in anguish in the courtyard.
She was not required to plead to the indictable charge.
The police case is that, on February 26, at Robb Street, Clarke murdered Haynes of Rasville, Georgetown.
In an attempt to secure an early date to start the preliminary inquiry into the allegation, her attorney, George Thomas, reminisced on the abusive life that the accused and her now-dead lover had shared. He said that the couple had been together for the past five years, and this has left the accused mentally, physically, and emotionally abused by the older Haynes.
Thomas declared that his client is in a period of mourning, so the court should show some mercy. He further stated that Clarke and the deceased were at the Red Dragon night club on Saturday morning when an argument ensued over a trivial issue. This ultimately led to Haynes being injured.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Stephen Telford, told the court that investigations revealed that the dead woman and the accused had been living together in an apartment of a house in Rasville for quite some time.
It was reported that the couple had had a fight a couple of weeks ago, and Clarke had threatened to kill Haynes then. On the day in question, Clarke and Haynes were at the Red Dragon night club on Robb Street when the accused saw the deceased talking to another woman and confronted her. The accused took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed Haynes in her neck. The injured woman collapsed, but was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where she later succumbed.
The police were summoned and the accused was subsequently arrested and questioned about the incident, to which she admitted, and for which she was subsequently charged.
It has been reported that the murder weapon was recovered by the police.
On Saturday, Haynes’s relatives were seen removing the contents of the Rasville apartment.
A relative of Haynes, declining to identify himself, said that all he could say of Haynes was that she was a very obedient and loving child and that he was saddened by the manner in which her life had been taken.
Clarke was refused bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. She will make her second court appearance on March 28.
