TAIJRAM Rahim, 35, was, on Monday, sentenced to 20 years in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years, for fatally stabbing his reputed wife in 2020, during a domestic altercation at their Rosignol, West Coast Berbice house.

Last month, Rahim appeared before Justice Navindra Singh at the Berbice High Court charged with murder, but he opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.

The cane harvester admitted that, on November 13, 2020, at their Lot 7 Marcy Dam, Rosignol, West Coast Berbice home, he unlawfully killed Amrita Rahim, 28, called “Sally”.

The state was represented by prosecutor Nefeeza Baig.

According to reports, on the night in question, at approximately 23:45 hours, the couple and their three children returned home from a birthday party. Sometime later, an argument erupted between Rahim and his wife after he accused her of infidelity.

Amrita threatened to leave the house, which caused Rahim to grab a knife from the kitchen.

It is alleged that he returned to the bedroom and stabbed his wife in the region of her left chest while she was lying on the bed. The couple’s eldest child, an 11-year-old, ran to relatives for help.

Amrita was picked up in an unconscious condition and taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

A post-mortem examination performed on her remains gave the cause of death as perforation of the heart due to a stab wound.