Accused in Albouystown businesswoman’s murder freed on retrial

Malcolm Culley, who was facing a retrial for the murder of Sumintra Dinool, the Albouystown, Georgetown businesswoman whose bound and gagged body was found in her home in 2014, was acquitted by a Demerara High Court jury on Tuesday.
After deliberating for over two hours, the jury foreman told trial Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall that the jurors had found the accused unanimously not guilty of the crime.
As a result, the Judge informed Culley that he was discharged.
According to information provided to this publication, Culley was first tried for the charge earlier this year in February, but a retrial was ordered since the jury was unable to reach a decision.
Reports are that, at about 04:00h on June 19, 2014, the son of this 65-year-old woman found her bound and gagged in her residence at Barr Street, Albouystown, Georgetown.
Her bedroom had been ransacked, and her hands and legs had been bound with telephone cord to the rails of her bed.
The media reported in 2014 that a quantity of electronic equipment, including a flat-screen television set and other items, were taken from the home.
However, some cash was reportedly found in the slain woman’s bedroom.
According to media reports, the Police had said there was no visible sign of forced entry into the home. Dinool, a vendor, had lived at this Albouystown property for about 46 years.
The post-mortem showed she had died from strangulation.
Shaheed Alli, 30, of Barr Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, who was also charged with killing the senior, suffered terrible beatings in prison before passing away.
Alli was charged and remanded to the Lusignan Prison on April 2, 2019, but he was ambushed and brutally beaten by fellow inmates while he slept there a few hours later.
He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he died on April 5, 2019. (G1)
It is unclear if anyone was ever charged with Alli’s killing.