AS the charge of murder was being read to her by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Private, Abiola Jacobs yesterday stood in court teary-eyed, her head tilted to her left and her hands crossed behind her back as she listened to the indictable offence, which detailed that on January 31, at Agricola Public Road, Greater Georgetown, she murdered 55-year-old Agricolan, Donna Taylor.

Police Inspector, Michael Grant, prosecuting, informed the court that the facts of the matter are as detailed in the charge, but police investigations are incomplete.

Unrepresented by legal counsel, the 22-year-old resident of Lot 55 Evan Phillips Park, Agricola, East Bank of Demerara was consequently remanded to prison, and the case was put off to February 26 for statements.

Police report that Taylor’s body was found aback her Agricola home on Friday, January 31, with her throat slit and her hands bound behind her. The cause of her death has been given as shock and hemorrhage due to multiple injuries. This is the official results of a post-mortem examination carried out on the body by pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh on February 3.

Samantha Sabat, Taylor’s friend who had been a guest at her home at time of the incident, was injured when she jumped from the window of the Lot 16/17 two-storey house in Agricola after persons had invaded the property. Sabat, a citizen of the United Kingdom, had been hospitalised after she was found lying unconscious in the yard with bruises about her body, particularly her head.
She has since been discharged from hospital, and has allegedly gone into hiding.
Written By Geeta Rampersaud