– To appear in court on January 3

SHELDON Prince, the estranged husband of 24- year-old Lonnet Nicholson-Prince, will be charged with murder and is expected to appear before the Magistrates Court in Berbice on January 3. The Director of Public Prosecutions on Friday advised that Prince be charged with murder. Prince, a trainee prison warden attached to the New Amsterdam Prison, on December 29 brutally stabbed to death Nicholson, a mother of one at her workplace after she had refused to speak with him.
Prince allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed her 11 times about the body in the presence of co-workers. After committing the brutal act, he reportedly fled through the eastern fence of the hospital and escaped.
His blood-stained pants were found some distance away under the Canje Bridge. The 30-year-old later turned himself in at the Central Police station in the company of Attorney-at-Law, Mursuline Bacchus.
Meanwhile, Government Pathologist, Dr Vivikanand Brijmohan, has revealed that Nicholson died from a stab wound to the heart, along with two other stab wounds which punctured her lungs. Dr. Brijmohan said too that the hairdresser died as a result of shock and haemorrhage resulting from the multiple stab wounds.
Nicholson, who had been married to Prince for five years, will be buried on Thursday.