Judge, jury visit Agricola murder site

AS the trial of 27-year-old former Guyana Defence Force Private, Abiola Jacobs called “Abby” for allegedly murdering her ex-boyfriend’s mother, Donna Taylor continues, Justice James Bovell-Drakes and the 12-member jury visited the crime scene at Lot 16-17 Agricola Public Road on Monday morning.

There they spent some time in discussion before they left.

The trial is being held before Justice Bovell-Drakes in the Georgetown High Court.

The case has been adjourned to Thursday when UK-based witness, Samantha Sabatt is expected to testify via Skype.

Police reported that Taylor’s body was found aback her Agricola home on Friday, January 31, 2014 with her throat slit, her hands bound behind her and a cloth wrapped around her neck.

She was reportedly asleep when she was dragged from her bed and taken to the back of the yard where she was killed.

According to the police report, Samantha Sabatt, who had been a guest at her home at the time of the incident, was injured when she jumped from the window of the two-storey house in Agricola after persons had invaded the property.

Jacobs, of Lot 55 Evan Phillips Park, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, was the girlfriend of the dead woman’s son, Bertram Taylor, Jr. The young man had reportedly broken off the relationship with her because of her aggressive attitude towards him.

It was reported that the young man had shared a very close relationship with his mother, and because of that relationship, the accused was of the view that the woman had influenced her son’s decision to sever the relationship.

Sabatt had travelled to Guyana from the United Kingdom to attend the funeral of her father. She was staying at Taylor’s residence when she decided to jump through the window after the persons who came into the house were attempting to break down the door to the bedroom in which she had secured herself.

The state’s case is being led by Mandel Moore in association with Lisa Cave while the defence attorney is Adrian Thompson.

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