FORMER Guyana Police Force Sergeant Colin Bailey was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan until March 15, 2016 for the offense of murder. Bailey appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

According to police claims, between August 30 and 31, 2013 he murdered his reputed wife, Sirmattie Ramnaress at her Diamond, East Bank Demerara home.
In providing his personal information to the court, Bailey said he was 52 – years’ old and resided at South Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara. When asked about his profession, Baily told the court that he was a policeman.
However, according to police records he was fired from the Guyana Police Force last year after he appeared in court charged with a corrupt transaction along with another policeman.
The prosecution said there was another person who was also charged with the murder of the woman and who was slated to appear in court again on March 7 but they had no intentions of charging the men jointly.
In 2013, Ramnaress was found dead in her home at Diamond and it was suspected that she might have been murdered by persons close to her. The 36-year-old was found in the lower flat of her posh home by an employee who turned up for work.
The body bore stab wounds, her house was ransacked and the lower flat drenched with diesel but not set afire.
The police had initially expressed an interest in the woman’s former partner who was a serving policeman at the time of her death. However when her body was discovered, the man was reportedly on escort duties.
The Police Force re-opened the case last year and arrested a suspect, who allegedly claimed that he was paid to kill the woman and to remove the device that stored her surveillance footage.