Wife Killer Eric Sookshine, alias Shakaal , 35, during a trial at the Berbice Assizes yesterday, ‘threw in the towel’ moments after State Prosecutor Dionne Mc Cammon indicated to the Judge that she may make an application under Section 95 of the Criminal Law Offences Act, in relation to the tendering of a statement of  one of the children of the accused.

Following consultations with Senior Counsel Marcel Crawford, the man in the dock pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter, which was accepted by the State.
Justice Brassington Reynolds postponed sentence to August 19, pending a probation report and plea in mitigation.
The remanded prisoner faced a second trial having had the previous one aborted due to approaches to a member or members of the jury by persons connected to the accused, on November 5, 2009.
Sookshine, a former cane harvester , murdered his wife Jashorda,  at their 18 First Street, Whim, Corentyne home, on June 2, 2005,  following rumors of infidelity.
According to the mother of the deceased, Vidawattie Narine, during a telephone conversation with her daughter and son-in- law the night before the murder, her daughter had told her that Sookshine was threatening to kill her and hang himself.
The distraught woman, who testified at the hearing on Friday, said she became concerned on hearing the screams of her three grandchildren, aged eight, six and three, but consoled herself that all would be well. But at 6:00hrs the next day, a relative told her that her daughter had been murdered.
Jashorda, who was eight weeks pregnant, was found dead on her kitchen floor on the morning of June 2, 2005, her clothes bloodied.
A cutlass, believed to be the murder weapon, was found a short distance  from the body. Government Pathologist Dr Vivikanand Brijmohan , who examined the body, recorded the cause of death as shock and haemorrhage, along with stab wounds to the heart.