Husband accused of dousing wife with hot porridge slapped with murder charge

Twenty-four-year-old Ajay Persaud, also called “Nicholas”, has been charged and remanded to prison for the murder of his reputed wife Analee Gonsalves almost one month after she succumbed to burn-related injuries which he had allegedly inflicted on her.
A resident of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD), Persaud was arraigned on Thursday before Wales Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty, before whom he was not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder allegedly committed on Analee Gonsalves, 20, a mother of one. Persaud has been remanded until November 24.

It has been reported that, on August 23, Gonsalves was doused with hot porridge during an argument with her abusive husband at their La Parfaite Harmonie home. A relative of the dead woman had told Guyana Times that they were first told that the woman was burned on the face while cooking, but when they arrived at the hospital, they were told that she was burned with boiling porridge by her abusive husband during an argument.
It has further been reported that this was not the first time that Gonsalves had been abused by the man.
Following that incident, the woman had been admitted as a patient at the West Demerara Regional Hospital with severe burns to her face, back and other parts of her body.
Ajay Persaud had fled the scene after that incident, but was captured in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and charged with attempted murder, and was remanded to prison.
Gonsalves died as a result of sepsis brought about by the burns about her body. (G1)