STATE prosecutor, Tuanna Hardy, on Tuesday, closed the State’s case in the trial of sixty-year-old Allan Sim, who allegedly killed the mother of his child in 2015.
Sim, called “Cayenne” of Paradise Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD), will appear before Justice Navindra Singh at the Demerara High Court.
The former taxi driver had denied that on November 23, 2015 at Georgetown, he murdered Melissa Skeete, called Lisa, a staff member of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Attorney-at-law Adrian Thompson is representing Sim.

Justice Singh has set Thursday for the summing up of evidence in the matter, following which he will hand the case to the 12-member jury.
According to the prosecution’s facts, Sim and Skeete shared a child together. The woman worked as a dispatcher at GPHC. On the day in question, at about 15:00 hours, Sim picked her up from work in his motorcar bearing registration PRR6801.

About 30 minutes later, the woman was found in the vicinity of Carmichael Street, bleeding profusely from several stab wounds about her body. She was rushed to the GPHC, where she succumbed while receiving treatment.

An investigation was launched and the accused was arrested. Under caution, he reportedly admitted to the offence, and his car was found five days later with the passenger seat replaced.
On November 25, 2015, Sim turned himself in to the police at the Alberttown Police Station after news surfaced that he had allegedly stabbed and killed the mother of his three-year-old daughter.

Sim is alleged to have stabbed Skeete eight times about her body before pushing her out of his car on Carmichael Street, Georgetown.
A post-mortem revealed that a single stab wound inflicted to Skeete’s stomach was “too deep”, and was responsible for her death.
Skeete’s relatives allege that she had shared an “on-and-off” relationship with Sim for more than 10 years, during which time she had been constantly abused and controlled by him, although he was married. She had finally decided to end the abusive affair when tragedy struck.