Port Mourant man remanded to Prison for slitting common law wife's throat

Kumar Singh, the Port Mourant man who slit the throat of his reputed wife on Friday July 23 was on Tuesday last remanded to the New Amsterdam Prison. Singh appeared at the Albion Magistrate Court before Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop to answer to a charge of Murder.

The particulars of the offence stated that on Singh on July 23 unlawfully killed Yashwattie Samaroo. He was not required to plead to the offence as it is an indictable charge. Bail was refused and Singh remanded to prison until August 30 when the matter will be called at the Whim Magistrate Court.

Singh on July 23 accosted Samaroo, his reputed wife on her way to a grocery shop in Port Mourant and in the presence of the couple’s seven year old, he brutally stabbed the woman then slit her throat. In a bid to evade the hands of Justice he then went to his home where he attempted to kill himself by hanging.

However, his intentions were thwarted after police acting speedily on information, when to his home to arrest him but instead found him hanging. He was cut loose and taken to the Port Mourant hospital then the New Amsterdam Hospital and then to the Georgetown Hospital. Singh remained under Police watch and upon discharge from the institution; he was charged and taken to Prison.

The Couple, according to Samaroo’s relatives, shared a violent relationship which the woman tried to escape from over the years but eventually got back together with the man. Samaroo’s relatives say the man always “stalked her and threatened to kill her.” For the years 2009 and early 2010, a number of women lost their lives at the hands of their spouses. Bridgette Gangadin of Lusignan was brutally killed allegedly by her husband.

The woman’s skull was crushed after her husband’s vehicle ran over her head. Meanwhile the Husband of Pinky Seeram of Edinburgh New Scheme East Bank Berbice remains on the loose after he allegedly hacked to death the woman while her mother narrowly escaped with injuries about the body on March 27, 2010. The Police have come in for criticism for its slothfulness in capturing the man.