Ranks of the Guyana Police Force have been called in to investigate the disappearance of a Black Busk Polder woman who has not been seen since September last year.
Wilwantie Balack
According to reports, Wilwantie Balack, 39, of Mibicuri North, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne was last seen on September 3, 2017 by her 21-year-old daughter Dharshni Davi Balack. However, three days later, the father approached this same daughter at her Friendship Village, Corentyne home and indicated that his wife had left the country and would not be attending her wedding.
The young Balack told this publication that over the past eight years she has tried desperately to find and contact her mother. According to Dharshni, her mother is the holder of a 10-year U.S. visa, and had visited the United States once before.
On that occasion, she had stayed with a brother in New York, but when he was contacted, the brother said he had not seen his sister and had doubted that she was in the U.S.A.
Following reports from other relatives that the woman’s husband had reported conflicting stories about the whereabouts of his wife, the daughter approached the Prime Minister’s Regional Representative, Gobin Harbhajan, for help, and he asked the family to have confidence in the police. Senior police officers were contacted, and the daughter was invited to the Whim Police Station, where a report was officially made on Wednesday.
Following that, police arrested the missing woman’s husband and his 22-year-old reputed wife.
The man, when questioned, gave police several stories about the whereabouts of his wife. They were all checked out and found to be untrue.
On Thursday afternoon the man reportedly told investigators that he had killed his wife.
Investigators were told that on September 6 last, the man and his wife had an argument over her wanting to go to the USA, whereas he did not want her to go.
The argument escalated and got to a stage where he became ‘physical’ with his wife.
“Me choke she and she get unconscious…,” the man told investigators as he described his wife passing out and falling to the ground. He said that after she passed out he became scared and dug a hole in the back yard and buried her.
Police went to the scene, and left last night without being able to confirm the man’s story. They are expected to return this morning and begin digging. Meanwhile, this publication has been informed that members of the Major Crimes Unit are expected to travel to Berbice today to assist with the investigations.
When Guyana Times visited the home last night, police had cordoned off the area and ranks were guarding the house
