WCB woman remanded for allegedly killing sister

Fifty-five-year-old Allison Walters, of Lot 45 Plantation Ross, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), was on Tuesday remanded for allegedly killing her sister.

Walters appeared before Magistrate Michelle Matthias at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court to answer the capital offence of murder.
She was not required to plead to the indictable charge, which stated that on October 2, at Plantation Ross, she murdered 72-year-old Barbara Crawford, a pensioner of Amelia’s Ward, Linden.
Police Prosecutor Sergeant Garfield Edwards told the court that the accused and the deceased are sisters.
Walters was unrepresented.
The murder weapon was a knife, which investigators were able to retrieve.
According to the police prosecutor, the investigation is still ongoing, and the case file is incomplete. He told the court that further legal advice is being sought on the matter.
Walters was remanded, and the case was transferred to the Weldaad Magistrate’s Court and comes up again on November 7, when the police would be expected to provide an update.
The woman’s lifeless body was removed from the home of her siblings at Plantation Ross, West Coast Berbice, last Thursday evening.
Crawford had been staying with her sister since September 12 after attending the funeral of a brother.
The accused, according to relatives, is believed to be mentally challenged. She reportedly seeks treatment at a mental health clinic in Region Six.
Reports are that after fatally stabbing her elder sister, the accused told a brother who lived in the lower flat what she had done but refused to open the door to let him in.
With the assistance of another brother who lives a few villages away, they were able to break into the upper flat, where the accused was seen armed with a knife and attacked one of her brothers with it.
However, after wrestling with the woman for some time and with assistance from others, they were able to relieve her of the weapon.
It had also been reported that the accused, who has a history of violent outbursts, was previously accused of attacking her own daughter in a similar manner.