DOUBLE-murder accused, Ian Boodhoo made his initial appearance at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court to answer to two indictable charges of murder before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga.

His court appearance occurred two days after the partly clothed body of his reputed wife, Parbattie Vyrauen, and her naked lover, Ramdat Persaud, were found with several incised wounds at a house at Johns, Tain Settlement, Corentyne.

Particulars of the offence read to the 26-year-old Boodhoo are that between June 2 and 3, he unlawfully killed 37-year-old Parbattie Vyrauen, called ‘Nicki,’ of Lot 1 B Kilcoy, Corentyne; and 56-year-old Ramdat Persaud, called ‘Buddy,’ of Lot 62 Tain Village, Corentyne.

The mason, who gave his address as No.3 Settlement, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice, was unrepresented by counsel and was remanded to the New Amsterdam Prison until July 13. The matter has been transferred to the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Last Wednesday, hours after discovery of the double-murder, the defendant confessed to killing his reputed wife and her lover at Johns, Tain Village, Port Mourant, Corentyne. Boodhoo told investigators he was fed up at being ‘put on wait’ while his reputed wife of two years carried on a relationship with the overseas-based Ramdat Persaud. He consequently premeditated the horrendous act, as he waited until the couple had retired before mounting two buckets; broke a western window, through which he crawled; and lingered for hours in the lower flat which housed the kitchen until he was certain that the couple had retired.

Armed with a cutlass, which he grabbed from Persaud’s kitchen, he then crept up an inner stairway, entered a north-eastern bedroom where the couple lay asleep on a mattress, and fired the first blow at Parbattie Vyrauen’s neck. He then dealt her lover an incised wound to his head.

Blood spilled across the freshly painted walls of the new house even as the injured couple was unable to leave the bedroom. Rigor mortis had already stepped in when sleuths visited the scene.