After Valentine celebration row…
A VALENTINE’S night celebration ended tragically for a couple, early yesterday morning, when the wife leaped from the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) and perished in the river below. The body of Nalini De Agrella, 40, of Lot 26 Independence Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara, was fished out, hours later, in the vicinity of Ruimveldt Police Marine Section wharf in Georgetown.
The mother of five and her husband,  Leroy De Agrella, 42, were travelling in  motor car, PJJ 60, on their way home after socialising at Bollywood Night Club in the city when she took the plunge about 01:30 hrs.
The engineer attached to K&B Enterprise told police, himself and wife had some drinks and were crossing the DHB when she told him she wanted to urinate.
He said he suggested that she wait until they were back home but she insisted and he stopped. Someone in another vehicle asked him why he had parked on the overpass and, at the same time, he heard a shout that a woman was overboard.
De Agrella said he jumped into the deep in an attempt to save his wife but was unsuccessful as the tide was rough and the place was dark, resulting in him swallowing a lot of water.
He said it is possible that his wife fell but he did not see it happen and it was not until she was already in the water that he ventured to rescue her but, after not locating her, he held onto a pontoon until he, himself, was rescued.

EXTRA-MARITAL AFFAIR
De Agrella admitted he and his wife had a row, earlier in the night, during which she accused him of having an extra-marital affair but maintained they were not fighting and denied he had dealt her some blows.
He was taken back to Diamond Diagnostic Centre for further treatment after he cried out for pain and was vomiting, but returned into police custody and is assisting with investigations into the circumstances under which his wife died.
Meanwhile, at their residence, three of their five children, Jamal, 13; Sheneza, 11; and Jaleel, 8, related, to the Guyana Chronicle, that their parents went out on Monday night to celebrate Valentine’s Day and they heard of the tragedy about 04:30 hrs yesterday.
They said their parents were not quarrelling nor did they fight before they left home. The siblings said their mother and father were happy together and they all were a normal family.
Another sibling, Jameel De Agrella, 15, who was at Providence Police Station, also on East Bank Demerara, said he is unsure what transpired but was waiting to see his father, to whom his mother was married for 23 years.
His elder sister, Stephanie, 21, is away but is expected back shortly.
The father’s motor car is lodged with the police.
Police, in a press release, said Nalini De Agrella is reported to have jumped off the DHB into the Demerara River.
The release said initial investigations revealed that she and her husband had an argument while crossing the bridge in their motor vehicle. She requested that he stop and she, then, jumped.
Her corpse is at Lyken’s Funeral Home awaiting a post mortem examination, the police said.