A TAXI driver has been charged for the murder of 61-year-old businesswoman, Sattie Monica Singh Beekharry, who was bludgeoned to death in her Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara house.

Rafeek Kahn is expected to be arraigned at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court today.
The police, on Thursday, were able to obtain legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions to charge Khan with the capital offence of murder.

On June 1, the businesswoman’s motionless body was discovered in a pool of blood in the kitchen area of her Lot 152 – 154 Begonia Drive, Atlantic Gardens house.
She was reportedly beaten to death with a padlock.

Khan, who is said to be her ‘close friend’ hid in the upper floor of the two-storey building, and had to be ‘flushed out’ with teargas by the police.

Police arrived at the scene after neighbours reported about hearing the woman screaming for “murder.”

Around 15:00 hrs, on the day in question, the police were able to gain entry into the house, after breaking down a door.

Under caution, the man reportedly told investigators that the businesswoman owed him money, and, on the day in question, they had an argument which caused him to lose his temper. In a fit of rage, he reportedly picked up a large padlock and attacked the woman until she became motionless.

A post-mortem done by Government Pathologist, Doctor Nehaul Singh, gave the woman’s cause of death as brain haemorrhage as a result of multiple trauma to the head, compounded by multiple fractures to a right side rib.

Beekharry often travelled to Canada and returned to Guyana weeks ahead of the March 2 General and Regional Elections.