SOME friends and family members of Prabhudial Tarachand from Albion, Corentyne, Berbice, staged a peaceful protest opposite the Albion Magistrate’s Court, when he made his appearance there yesterday.

The man is charged with the Sunday, June 2 murder of his reputed wife, Geeta Bishundial, at their High Reef home and first appeared at the New Amsterdam Court.
The protestors carried placards demanding a better police investigation into the case and for justice to be served.
Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle, the prisoner’s
brother, Muniram Tarachand said they are convinced that the accused did not kill Bishundial, pointing to the presence of a third party at the scene.
“The other person who was there has to know something about what took place,” the protesting man insisted.
It was alleged that the third person is the one who discovered the deceased and rescued Prabhudial in an unconscious state before making a report at the Albion Police Station.
However, Bishundial’s sister claimed she made the gruesome discovery. Responding to that, Muniram Tarachand said: “The other man told the police, in his statement, that he found the dead woman and my brother but we are not sure. The fact remains that two of them were at the scene of the crime and we are puzzled to know why only my brother was charged.”

TRIANGULAR AFFAIR
Muniram Prabhudial added that, on April 26, his sibling, the woman and the third person were involved in a public fracas that engaged the attention of the police and, ever since, there was  tension in the alleged triangular affair.
“My brother was willing to live with this triangular affair, since he did not want his children to grow up without their parents. This other chap is a bully and wanted to create havoc in my brother’s home,” Muniram maintained.
He said it was alleged, too, that the prisoner was brutalised and forced into signing a confession statement, which caused him to be charged for the capital offence.
Muniram Tarachand said: “We are protesting because we need a deep and thorough investigation into this matter, by the Police Force. I have no doubt that their initial investigation was sloppy and it has caused my brother to be incarcerated, while the other man is roaming free.”
As the picketing proceeded beyond a police roadblock, the accused appeared briefly before Magistrate Roby Benn and was further remanded to prison until July 11.
The prisoner made his first appearance on June 6, at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court, in Berbice, before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, who transferred the case to the Albion court.