FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Haslyn Hodge of Prospect, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was on Tuesday remanded to prison for the alleged murder of a Venezuelan woman.

He was hauled before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman, charged with the murder of Evelyn Alves, the 23-year-old mother of three, who was found dead earlier this month with a gunshot wound in the back of her head. Hodge was not required to plead to the indictable charge.

The murder accused was remanded to prison and will return to court on August 2, 2024.

Police headquarters said that the woman was killed on the road leading to the New Diamond Development Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on July 7, 2024.

Investigations revealed that workers from a construction company were in two vehicles going to refuel the company’s excavator, which is being used to construct a bridge in the New Diamond Developing Housing Scheme, when they saw the lifeless body of a female lying on the road.

The woman’s body was clad in a white jersey with a female photograph on the front, black jeans, and a pair of black pumps. A tattoo of a butterfly was seen on her right arm.

Her head was in a pool of blood. Detectives processed the scene, and a 9mm spent shell was found about 10 feet away from the woman’s head; a cell- phone was found next to the body. The body was examined, and what appeared to be a gunshot wound was seen at the back of her head.