Charity labourer remanded for wounding reputed wife

Thirty-six-year-old Ryan Williams has been denied bail after appearing before Anna Regina Magistrate Esther Sam on Wednesday, February 9, to answer a charge of felonious wounding committed on his 18-year-old reputed wife on February 6.
Williams, a labourer of Lot 1130 Charity Squatting Area, Essequibo Coast, has pleaded not guilty to the charge, but
the Police prosecutor has raised serious objections to him being admitted to bail. Those objections were upheld by Magistrate Sam, and Williams was remanded to prison until February 27. His matter has been transferred to the Charity Magistrate’s Court.
Earlier this month, Khemadatt Persaud, a 55-year-old businessman of Vryheid Village, West Canje Berbice, was charged with attempting to murder his ex-reputed wife Deoranie Badal, called “Marcy”.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charge, which alleged that, on January 30, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Badal, called “Marcy”, with intent to murder her. Persaud has been remanded to prison by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh.
Guyana Times had previously reported that 36-year-old Badal, who sustained chop wounds to her head, remained hospitalised in critical condition. She has been transferred to the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown, after she had tested positive for COVID-19.
This publication has reported that, on the day in question, Persaud allegedly chopped Badal about her body with a cutlass, resulting in her sustaining severe injuries to her head.
Reports are that on the day in question, at Rose Hall Town in East Berbice, the woman – who works as a junior manager at the Nand Persaud Berbice Rice Mills – was at a wash bay when her ex-reputed husband arrived and began chopping her to the head and body. At the time of the incident, Persaud and Badal had been separated for over three months.