Wife, female relative indicted for murder of holidaying overseas-based Guyanese

HEMWATTIE Abdulla, called ‘Anita’, 37, a nurse of 11602 – 132nd Street, South Ozone Park, New York, USA; and Seerojonie Permaul, called ‘Usha’, 42, of 52 Belvedere Housing Scheme, Albion, Corentyne, Berbice were arraigned on Tuesday before Magistrate Krisendat Persaud at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court for the murder of overseas-based Guyanese Abdool Shakeel Majid, 42, who at the time of his murder was holidaying in Guyana. Charged indictably, the women were not required to enter a plea. They were both remanded to prison, and will return to the No. 51 Village Magistrate’s Court shortly.
Hemwattie Abdulla, called Anita, was arrested on Sunday at the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam, Berbice when she showed up to identify her husband’s body.
Police had said that an unidentifiable body with the scalp missing and bearing other injuries was found at the No. 56 Village foreshore, Corentyne, on Friday, April 27 last. That body has since been identified as that of Abdool Shakeel Majid.
The body was identified on Tuesday, May 15, by Abdool Hasheed Majid, brother of the deceased, a Guyanese who now resides in the U.S.A.
At about 07:40 hrs on Friday, April 27 last, the body of Abdool Shakeel Majid, then unidentifiable, was found at the foreshore of No.56 Village, Corentyne, and was placed at the Skeldon Hospital mortuary awaiting identification.
Money to be garnered from a US insurance policy is believed to be why Majid was allegedly killed in Guyana by his wife and a female relative during a visit home.

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