Babita Sarjou murder PI… Crime Laboratory detective called to testify
Sarjou’s ex-husband, Sharanandand Narine
Sarjou’s ex-husband, Sharanandand Narine

THE Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Babita Sarjou, who allegedly was killed by her ex-husband six years ago, continued yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.Sarjou’s ex-husband Sharnandand Narine, called ‘Anand’, of Seaforth Street Campbellville and Dorel Pronton, called ‘Yankee’, of Lot 54 Broad Street, Charlestown are currently on remand for the woman’s murder. Naraine is being represented by Attorney Peter Hugh, while Pronton is being represented by Attorney Nigel Hughes.

Accomplice: Darel Keith Pronton
Accomplice: Darel Keith Pronton

Detective Deputy Superintendent of Police Rafeek Alli testified on Monday that he is stationed at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters at Eve Leary, Georgetown and is attached to the Crime Laboratory. The matter has been adjourned for today.

Sarjou left home on November 4, 2010, telling her mother, Champa Seonarine, that she would be meeting with her estranged husband and four-year-old son at the Kitty Seawall to view the annual Diwali motorcade. That same night she was expected to return to her mother’s Timehri home, but was never again seen alive.

Skeletal remains were eventually removed from a corner of her husband’s residence after the accused duo had led detectives to a spot located behind a zinc fence on the property, and DNA samples have been taken from those remains to confirm the identity of the deceased, but Sarjou’s relatives have already identified a pair of shoes and parts of the attire found with the skeleton as belonging to Sarjou.

Dead: Babita Sarjou
Dead: Babita Sarjou

Sarjou’s husband has stated that he was furious with her because he had suspected that she was having an affair with a man at her workplace. He was also angry that she had taken him to court on allegations that he had posted nude pictures of her online.

It is alleged that he had hired the unemployed Pronton, whom he had befriended, to kill Sarjou. Pronton was allegedly paid $50,000 and promised a trip to Trinidad, which never materialised.

 

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