Engineer on $500,000 bail for attempted murder of fiancée

An engineer attached to the Regional Democratic Council of Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) was on Monday charged with the attempted murder of his fiancée.
Neil Madramootoo, 29, of Shoe Lane, New Amsterdam appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Peter Hugh via Zoom, where he was not required to plea to the indictable charge.
It is alleged that on October 1, at Williamsburg, Corentyne, he shot Ashmin Mahadeo in an attempt to kill her.

The court was told that the 32-year-old woman is Madramootoo’s fiancée.
Police Prosecutor Lance Corporal Vedesh Jattan told the court that detectives were able to get a statement from Mahadeo, from her hospital bed, in which she claimed it was Madramootoo who shot her.
The court was told that the firearm was discovered at the crime scene. According to the prosecutor, the injured woman is still in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital.
He asked the court not to allow the accused pre-trial liberty.
However, Attorney-at-Law Tejnarine Ramoop, who is defending the accused, in mitigating for the accused to be granted bail, argued that the incident occurred since October 1.
He told the court that it was the accused that took the victim to the hospital.
The Magistrate, before granting bail, asked the prosecutor who a statement was taken from if the woman is still critical.
The prosecution assured the court that a video recording of the statement is available and that it was obtained last Friday.
Ramroop in his petition for the court to grant bail, also highlighted that the accused is an engineer working with the Agriculture Ministry for Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).

Bail was set at $500,000 on the conditions that Madramootoo lodges his passport with the court and that he reports to the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam every other week.
The matter will come up again on November 8 at the Albion Magistrate’s Court.
Following the shooting, it had been reported that Mahadeo was discovered with a gunshot wound to her neck at her home at Williamsburg, Corentyne, and was rushed to a hospital in Berbice an unconscious state. Reports are that the bullet entered from the back of the neck and exited through the jaw. She was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she remains.
Police have since gathered evidence in relation to an illegal firearm that was found in the house where the shooting incident took place. Ballistics tests were also done.
At the time of the shooting, the couple was packing items in Madramootoo’s company vehicle to be taken to a location in Port Mourant where the couple’s bridal shower was expected to take place.
According to Police, the fiancé initially told her relatives that he did not know what transpired and allegedly suggested that it might have been a robbery.
He had claimed that he did not know where Mahadeo’s cell phone was. He also claimed that his cell phone was missing. However, both phones were subsequently discovered in a vehicle. The couple was slated to get married later this month. (G4)