A TAXI driver was on Monday remanded to prison after he appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where he was arraigned for the murder of a member of staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Fifty-five-year-old Alan Sim, called ‘Cayenne’ of 860 Paradise Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was not required to submit a plea to the indictable charge which read that on Monday, November 23 at Georgetown, he murdered Mellisa Skeete, called Lisa.It was revealed by Police Prosecutor Steven Telford that the murder accused and the deceased shared a child together.
It was further related that the dead woman worked at the GPHC as a dispatcher, and that on the day in question, Sims picked her up from work at about 15:00h in his motorcar, PRR6801.
Telford disclosed that about 30 minutes later, the woman was found in the vicinity of Carmichael Street, bleeding profusely from several stab wounds about her body. She was rushed to the GPHC, where she succumbed while receiving treatment. An investigation was launched, and the accused was arrested. Under caution, he reportedly admitted to the offence, and his car was found on Saturday with the passenger seat replaced.
The Prosecutor requested and was granted two weeks to complete the investigation. Sim was remanded to prison, and will return to Court on January 10.
On November 25, Sim turned himself in to the police at the Alberttown Police Station after news surfaced that he had allegedly stabbed and killed the mother of his three-year-old daughter, Jelana. Sim is alleged to have stabbed Skeete eight times about her body, and to have pushed her out of his car on Carmichael Street, Georgetown. A post-mortem revealed that a single stab wound inflicted to Skeete’s stomach was “too deep”, and was responsible for her death.
Skeete’s relatives allege that she had shared an “on-and-off” relationship with Sim for more than ten years, during which time she had been constantly abused and controlled by him, although he is married. She had finally decided to end the abusive affair when tragedy struck.