Several days after he was apprehended by Police while hiding out at a Berbice hotel, 40-year-old Clarence Farley was on Monday remanded to prison for the murder of his wife, Omega Ault, a teacher of Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD).
He was not required to plead to the indictable charge which stated that he murdered the 39-year-old woman between May 23 and May 27.
Murder accused Clarence Farley
The murder accused, who appeared before Senior Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court, was remanded to prison until June 27.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum had confirmed for Guyana Times that Farley confessed to killing his wife, but the senior investigator did not divulge any details about the confession.
Dead: Omega Ault
An autopsy confirmed that the Home Economics teacher ,formerly of Aurora, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), died as a result of brain haemorrhage and multiple blunt force trauma to the head.
Farley, called “Junior”, a mechanic of Lot 8 Crane Village, for whom a wanted bulletin had been issued was arrested on Thursday.
Reports are that Police ranks, acting on information received, went to the hotel at Number 78 Village, Corriverton, Berbice where Farley was arrested in room nine.
Ault’s decomposing body was found on the evening of May 27 at the couple’s Crane home. The discovery was made after the woman’s brother, Kevin Ault had gone to the house to check on her, because he had failed to get into contact with her via phone for two weeks.
The man told the Police that after phone calls to his sister had gone unanswered, he went to her home to check on her. He related that he pushed open the front door to the house and immediately got an unpleasant scent. He then went into the front room of the house and saw the motionless body of his sister lying in a state of decomposition.
It has been reported that Ault and Farley, who lived with their three-year-old son, had been encountering “problems” in their marriage. Police have said that about four days prior to the discovery of the woman’s body, Farley had taken their son to Ault’s sister at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD), and had left the boy there after telling her that he was going into the backdam.
His car was later found at a lumberyard at Coverden, EBD. A source had told this publication that
Farley was contracted to the lumberyard and he had parked his car at the business place before using one of the company’s vehicles to travel into the interior. On his way in, the vehicle reportedly encountered mechanical issues, and he returned the following day to the office to get the parts to fix the problem. The vehicle was impounded by the Police.
