MAGISTRATE Alisha George on Monday remanded a 46-year-old security guard to prison for the murder/rape of Marilyn Singh, whose lifeless body was found in her Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) residence earlier this month.

Ravindra Ramdeen, called “Ravin”, appeared before the Sparedaam Magistrate’s Court and was not required to plea to the indictable charge, which alleged that on December 11, 2020, at Eighth Street, Cummings Lodge, he murdered the 53-year-old woman during the course or furtherance of a rape. The father of three was remanded to prison until February 1 for report.

The Guyana Chronicle had previously reported that Ramdeen is the reputed husband of Singh’s step-niece.
According to the reports, Ramdeen confessed to strangling Singh after she refused to have sex with him a second time on December 11. He claimed that he and Singh, known as “Jean”, had shared an intimate relationship, and that the woman had invited him to “sneak over” that night.
Singh, along with Ramdeen, his wife and other relatives shared the same home; however, after Singh filed assault charges against her step-niece, both the niece and her husband (Ramdeen) were asked to move.

Ramdeen had allegedly told investigators that he had consumed a quantity of Vodka before visiting Singh, and that the woman, upon letting him in, became annoyed by his drinking.

The accused said that he then “held onto” Singh, and as she was walking backwards, she fell onto the bed. Ramdeen said he then took off the woman’s clothes, after which they became intimate, and that after he was done, they laid down.

The man reportedly told the police that as Singh was attempting to “get up”, he pulled her back onto the bed, causing her to hit her head. Ramdeen claimed that Singh then shouted his name twice, after which he “choked her and went home.”

A neighbour told the police that she’d heard the woman’s faint screams around 02:26 hrs on December 11. “She was screaming, saying, ‘Ravin! Ravin! What you doing?’” the neighbour had related to this newspaper.