RYAN Sugrim, the man who allegedly killed and then buried his wife in a shallow grave will be charged with murder when he appears in court next week, police confirmed.

Investigators had approached the High Court to extend his detention and were granted 72 hours. The 38-year-old businessman allegedly confessed to killing his wife, Zaila Sugrim, a mother of five. The woman had separated from Sugrim eight months ago after enduring over a decade of abuse. She cared for three of their children while Sugrim had two.

A postmortem revealed that she had been shot in the head. A .32 warhead was reportedly extracted from the corpse during the autopsy. The businessman owned a.32 revolver, which he lodged at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Headquarters, Eve Leary, on Monday.

On Tuesday, detectives dug up Mrs. Sugrim’s bound, wrapped, and decomposing remains from a shallow grave behind a Crane, West Coast Demerara gas station where her husband is employed. Her brother, Akbar Haniff said his sister’s body was burnt beyond recognition before she was placed in the shallow grave.

She was last seen alive on May, 11, 2019 when she entered her ex-husband’s vehicle.