Strathspey man pleads guilty to 2020 murder of partner’s mother

Linden Junior Isaacs of Strathspey Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara has admitted to murdering his former partner’s mother, 56-year-old Velma Pickering, in May 2020.
In pleading guilty to the charge of murder before Justice Sandil Kissoon in the Demerara High Court, the 32-year-old Isaacs on Wednesday said he had committed the crime during a violent altercation with the late Velma Pickering at her Vryheid’s Lust, ECD home.

The charge that Isaacs faced detailed that on May 11, 2020, he — then 28 years old — murdered 56-year-old Velma Pickering by attacking her with an ice pick and stabbing her multiple times while she was at home with her toddler grandson.
Despite sustaining critical injuries, Pickering had managed to flee her home, but collapsed in a neighbour’s yard; from whence she was later picked up and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where she was pronounced dead on arrival. A post-mortem examination later determined that her death was caused by a puncture wound to the heart.
Isaacs will return to court on November 14 for sentencing.