…victim’s mother said he was jealous and abusive
TWENTY-THREE- YEAR- OLD murder accused, David Johnson, of 45 Norton Street, Lodge, was yesterday remanded to prison until April 2, 2012.
He is accused of murdering his fiancee, 20-year-old Leonaka Natasha Johnson, called Tasha. Johnson appeared before Magistrate Shordel Issacs at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court, West Coast Demerara, after confessing his crime to the police four days after committing the act.

Speaking with this publication before the case was called, sister of the deceased, Candasie Johnson, said earlier yesterday morning the family received information from the police stating that her late sister’s fiancée, who had been in custody, had admitted to police that he was the one who killed her.

“He confess everything to the police; he even tell them that they were two persons that could have confirmed that he was in the area at the time that same night, when the people heard the screams they could see nothing, but the police confirmed with those people that he was in the same bus with them around midnight to come into Nismes.”

According to the sister of the deceased, the alleged killer told police that around midnight on Thursday, he took a bus and went to his fiancée’s River View home in Nismes on the West Demerara, where he waited for her to return, after which he committed the act.

“He told them that he sat and waited till she came and he beat her right in front where we found her body … she didn’t get a chance to reach inside so the person the people saw and thought it was a rasta person was him, cause he hair plait and that’s why…”

She continued to explain what was related to the family by police ranks.  “He said after she get the blow to her head, she get weak and she blacked out and then he drag her in the trench and stand up on her and push her down in the mud,” she said.

According to Candasie, the couple had their ups and downs, but they had a strong love for each other and always managed to put the problems aside.

Meanwhile, mother of the deceased, Isabelle Hinds, told this publication that her daughter’s boyfriend had always been a jealous person and she believes that this was what prompted the tragic incident.

“From the beginning I had a feeling it was he …,” she said.

According to Hinds, the young man had always been abusive and jealous and they would have constant arguments, but she never expected the relationship to end in murder.
Hinds related that it was some time ago that she asked the accused to leave their home, because of his behaviour and how he treated her daughter.

“I put him out from the home… every time anybody call, he would run to the phone and ‘buse them; they together for four to five years.”

“He even went with her sisters the next day and make a report about a missing person; and when we try to call him Saturday, he never come, but then when his aunty came at the station, she called him and that is how he decided to come.”

It is alleged that on Thursday, March 17, David Johnson murdered his fiancée of five years and dumped her body in a canal, only yards away from her home.

During the court hearing yesterday, Johnson showed no remorse and was seen smiling with the family of his late fiancée throughout the court hearing.

The funeral of the late Leonaka Natasha Johnson is expected to take place tomorrow on the West Bank Demerara.