Hotel murder suspect caught on E’bo coast

May 16, 2013 News

Maryann Nauth

Police at the Aurora Police Station, Essequibo Coast, acting on intelligence, have apprehended 31-year-old,Vinood Balgobin, a/k “Bunga”, the estranged husband of Maryann Nauth, who was discovered dead in a City Hotel, Saturday last. Balgobin was apprehended early Wednesday morning, after he disembarked a speedboat at Supenaam. Police have since transported him back to the City.
According to reports, Balgobin was apprehended in the vicinity of Supenaam. He had travelled to the Essequibo Coast from Parika, after boarding the first speed boat to leave Parika. This publication was told that a relative of the slain woman spotted Balgobin at Parika and informed the police on the Essequibo Coast giving them a detailed description of the man.
Balgobin, whose address was given as 316 La Penitence, is the prime suspect in Nauth’s killing. The woman hailed from Lot 110 Vryheid’s Lust North, East Coast Demerara.
Nauth’s body was discovered in the K and VC Hotel on South Road, on Saturday last with a knife stuck in her chest. Hotel staff made the gruesome discovery. A post mortem examination which was done on the woman’s remains revealed that she sustained 28 stab wounds.
Nauth’s relatives had indicated that she had shared a turbulent relationship with Balgobin for the past 13-years. That relationship however ended December last.
The police had launched a manhunt for the suspect, since there was evidence that he had entered the K&VC Hotel on South Road, hours before her body was discovered on a blood-soaked bed.
The woman, according to relatives, was last seen in the company of her estranged husband on Saturday night around 20:30pm. Her body was discovered around 02:00 hours on Sunday.
Reports are that the woman checked into the hotel late Saturday night in the company of a man. Just before the discovery was made the man alone was seen leaving the hotel. This prompted hotel employees to check the room they had rented.
There they made the gruesome discovery of Nauth’s body with a knife still stuck in the centre of her chest. There was also a photograph of a man and a woman left beside her.