Mark Singh and Shakir Mohamed, accused of murdering Sheranie Doobay, wife of Dr Ramsundar Doobay, at her Echilibar Villas home in Campbellville, Georgetown last week Tuesday, appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning to answer to a charge of murder.
The men were remanded to prison, and will make another court appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive- Hamilton on Monday, June 6.
Mark Singh and Shakir Mohamed leaving the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday after they were remanded
Singh and Mohamed were not required to plead to the indictable charge, which stated that on May 24, at Echilibar Villas, Campbellville Georgetown, they murdered Sheranie Doobay. The duo was represented by attorney-at-law Gordon Gilhuys, who said that his client Mark Singh had indicated to him that he was forced to give a statement. He added that his client was allegedly beaten about his body while being interrogated.
This charge comes one day after Singh confessed to killing the woman and had led investigators to a trench in Stone Avenue Campbellville where the murder weapon was recovered – a bloodied hammer wrapped in a plastic bag. After the discovery, the file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who instructed that the charge be instituted.
The brutalised body of Sheranie Doobay was discovered in her kitchen lying in a pool of blood. She had been struck repeatedly in the head with a blunt instrument. Mark Singh and Shakir Mohamed were arrested over the weekend in connection with that murder. The source revealed that Singh had told investigators that he had murdered the woman minutes after she had opened the door to let him and Mohamed into the house.
The doctor had told media operatives that, on the day in question, he was accompanied home by another nephew, and upon arriving home at 16: 30 hours, he repeatedly called for his wife but got no answer.
With the assistance of his nephew, he removed a few panes from the upper flat, since those in the lower flat were reinforced with metal grills.
The nephew then climbed through the window, entered the bottom flat, and made the gruesome discovery. Neighbours had said that they did not hear or see anything unusual on the day the woman’s body was discovered. A post-mortem examination conducted on the woman’s body by pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh revealed that she died as a result of the eight wounds inflicted on her head.
