–sentence deferred to March 12
GILION Devon Limerick, called “Sparkie” and “Jucker”, aged 34, a driver of Lot 79 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, once shared a common-law union with the 38-year-old Pamela Beverly Ann Mangru, mother of four children. On the night of April 1, 2009, Dexter Limerick, brother of Gilion, went to Gilion’s home to collect some money owed for the sale of some tickets. He knocked on the door, and getting no answer, he opened it to see a female of East Indian descent lying inside, and observed what appeared to be blood on the door.
Dexter Limerick reported what he had experienced to officers at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station at about 8.45pm, and a police officer accompanied him back to Lot 79 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, where he pointed out a two-storey building.   The officer entered the yard and observed that the door to the bottom storey, which was secured with a hasp and staple, was stained with what appeared to be blood.
Using an iron bar, the officer broke the lock, opened the door, and saw a female of East Indian descent lying face upwards in a pool of blood with a wound across her throat. She was wearing only a striped jersey.
That woman was identified as Pamela Beverly Ann Mangru. She was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Gilion Devon Limerick and Pamela Beverly Ann Mangru had started living together as man and wife from June 2008. Their relationship was described by Limerick himself, in a caution statement given to the police following the April 1, 2009 incident, as one in which they always had problems.
The accused, Gilion Devon Limerick, had appeared in court charged with murder, but the court and the prosecution decided to accept the application for the lesser count of manslaughter.
According to Leading  Prosecutor, Mrs. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, and her assistant, Miss Renita Singh, Mangru’s consumed alcohol, and whenever she heard that Limerick had talked to any girl, “she does get vex” and beat him up. Limerick said he never beat her. He claimed that she would sometimes come home with “hickey” on her skin, and when he questioned her about those, she would get angry.
Limerick and Mangru had lived in the bottom flat of a two-flat house located at 79 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop. One Billy Jettoo lived in the upper flat with his mother.
On April 1, 2009, at about 8pm, Billy Jetto was watching television when he heard sounds coming from the downstairs department. One of those sounds was a heavy bang that actually rocked the entire buiding. Jettoo looked outside, and saw Limerick, whom he had known, walk out of the yard, locking the gate behind him. Jettoo called out to Limerick, asking him, “Why yuh lockin the gate? What you did?” Limerick did not respond.
At about 8.45 pm that said night, Mangru was found lying in her living room in a pool of blood, with a wound across her throat. A bloodstained knife about eight inches long was on a chair next to her body.
This knife, the prosecutor told Justice Franklyn Holder, was subsequently identified by Mangru’s children as the knife that belonged to the home they had shared with their mother and Limerick.
Folowing his arrest, Limerick gave a written statement to Cpl. Lawrence Thomas in the presence of Cpl. Conway, who signed as a witness. Limerick claimed that, on the day in question, he arrived home from work at 3.00pm and met Mangru at her CD shop. She asked him to pay the Digicel bill, and give him $15,000 to do so. He left, and when he returned, Mangru told him that one of her friends was celebrating her birthday, and she (Mangru) was going to the friend’s shop to drink alcohol.
According to Limerick, he bought two Guinness, which he drank, after which he went with Mangru and others to the shop, where they consumed a couple half-bottles of vodka. At about 6 pm, he, Mangru, Boula, Roxanne, her boyfriend, and another man left the shop and went to Roxanne’s house, where they drank one bottle of vodka and got high.
He claimed that someone was calling Mangru “steady, steady” on her cell phone, and she told him she wanted to go home. Between 7pm and 8pm, Limerick and Mangru returned home, and he left her to go to a nearby Chinese restaurant, where he bought a food. He ate the food there and then returned home, entering the apartment through the back door.
He claimed that he saw his wife in a chair in the hall with her pants to her ankle, and a brown skinned negro male with plaited hair was having sexual intercourse with her from behind. He became angry and asked her what she was doing. She began abusing him, and went to the kitchen, where she collected a knife and told him that she would juck him up.
Limerick said he took away the knife from her, “juck” her a couple of times on her belly, but being high, he did not know how many times he had “juck” her. The man ran out, jumped into a car and drove away.
Limerick said he dropped the knife in the house, picked up Mangru and asked her why she cheated on him, and she said she was sorry, then she died. “I left she in the house alone and go away. I am sorry I kill she.”  Attorney-at-Law Mr. Trenton Lake, who defended the accused, requested a report from the Probation Department, and was facilitated.
Probation Report and sentencing were fixed for Monday, March 12.