FORTY-six-year-old Radha Sukwah, the girlfriend of the 73-year-old farmer, Deonarine aka Russian, who was brutally murdered last week at his Grant Lower Pomeroon, has reportedly confessed to ranks of the Police Major Crimes Unit that she committed the crime.

She admitted to the police that she shot the deceased and is expected to take detectives to the scene in an effort to recover the weapon.

Meanwhile, the three other persons who were in custody were released. Sukwah, along with the three other men were taken to CID headquarters at Eve Leary for intense grilling. It was during the questioning that the woman admitted.

In Essequibo, she had given detectives conflicting accounts of the incident. Relatives of the deceased said that according to information they have received, Deonarine and Sukwah had a heated argument at Charity last Monday.

Neighbours also divulged that the woman recently returned from Venezuela after claiming that her husband had died. She is a mother of three. A post-mortem is expected to be performed on the remains of the elderly man today. Family members of the deceased are in high praise of the police for their prompt action.