CHIEF Magistrate Ann McLennan on Monday ordered that 28-year-old Melissa Cylus, who is accused of strangling her husband to death, undergo counselling for anxiety disorder.

Cylus, who is six months pregnant was charged last month with manslaughter and was released on $200,000 bail for the indictable offence. It was alleged that on May 13, 2018 at Lot 14 Soesdyke Back Road, East Bank Demerara, Cylus unlawfully killed her reputed husband, 32-year-old Julian Anthony Reberio.

However, when the matter was recalled on Monday before the chief magistrate, it was disclosed by Police Prosecutor Inspector Neville Jeffers that the post mortem report was still outstanding and he requested a three-week adjournment.
The magistrate adjourned the matter until July 4 and assigned Cylus to a probation officer to be counselled for anxiety disorder.

Cylus had told investigators that her reputed husband went home intoxicated and fell in the house. As a result, she said she rushed him to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he died.

In another statement she said she tried waking him up but he was unresponsive. But what raised eyebrows and blew the case wide open, were the findings of an autopsy done by Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, in which it was found that the victim died of asphyxiation caused by compression injuries to the neck… in other words death by strangulation. There was no head injury listed on the autopsy report.

After hours of interrogation at the Timehri Police Station, Cylus reportedly said that she and Rebeiro got into an argument and in anger she strangled him.