ABIOLA Jacobs, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) private who has been charged with the murder of Agricola resident Donna Taylor, allegedly committed on January 31, will return to court on March 24 for report and fixture for the preliminary inquiry (PI).

The 22-year-old had last appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on February 5, when she had not been required to plead to the capital offence. On that occasion, the police had asked for two weeks’ time to complete investigations into the incident.

Wednesday, Police Corporal Bharat Mangru, prosecuting, asked for an additional three weeks’ time to complete the file.

Jacobs, of Lot 55 Evans Phillips Park, Agricola, is now represented by attorney-at-law, Mr. Adrian Thompson, who said the time requested by the prosecution is too long.

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 back. The official result of a post-mortem examination conducted by pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh on February 3 gave the cause of Taylor’s death as shock and haemorrhage due to multiple injuries.

Samantha Sabat, Taylor’s friend who had been a guest at her home when the incident occurred, was injured when she jumped from the window of Taylor’s two-storey house at Lot 16/17 Public Road, Agricola because 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.

(By Geeta Rampersaud)