GUYANA Defence Force (GDF) Private Abiola Jacobs was on Tuesday committed to stand trial at the High Court for the murder of 55-year-old Agricola resident, Donna Taylor.

The 22-year-old accused of Lot 55 Evan Phillips Park, Agricola, East Bank Demerara was not required to plead to the capital offence when she appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on February 5 last.

Particulars of the charge detail that on January 31, at Agricola Public Road, Greater Georgetown, she murdered Donna Taylor.

On Jacobs’s second appearance in court, Attorney-at-Law Mr. Adrian Thompson entered an appearance for her. Corporal Bharat Mangru, the initial prosecutor of the matter, is presently on leave, and Police Inspector Michael Grant held for Mangru during his absence.

Approximately thirteen witnesses testified in the matter on behalf of the prosecution.

The accused was informed that a prima facie case had been made out against her, and that there is enough evidence for her to stand trial at the October 2014 sitting of the Demerara Assizes.

Police report that Taylor’s body was found aback her Agricola home on Friday, January 31, with her throat slit and her hands bound behind her. The cause of her death has been given as shock and haemorrhage due to multiple injuries. This is the official results of a post-mortem examination carried out on the body by pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh on February 3.