Man remanded for killing Venezuelan woman at Kaikan village

Jairo Medina Hernandes has been charged and remanded for the murder of Venezuelan national Estephanie Garcia, whose body was found at her home in Kaikan Village, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
This 35-year-old Venezuelan national was arraigned before Bartica Magistrate Dylon Bess on Friday, and was not required to plead to the indictable charge. He has been remanded to prison until December 19.
Based on information received, the woman’s husband, Elvis Trotman, had left home to go to work in Venezuela on Thursday, September 21, at about 17:00h; and the following day, the couple’s three children had left home for school at about 7:30h. However, when the children returned home, they discovered their mother lying motionless on the floor with blood around her neck.
An alarm was raised, and neighbours who responded reported the matter to the Kaikan Police Station.
The Police in a release said the woman’s body was found lying on its back on the floor of the one-bedroom house, with a red T-shirt pulled just above her breast and multi-coloured underwear pulled below her buttocks, with her private parts exposed, leading investigators to suggest that she had been raped.
Upon examination of the body, two small puncture wounds were seen on her neck.