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Oct 16, 2015 News
After almost two years, police have received DNA evidence that proves that a man who was accused of killing his wife in 2013 did commit the crime.
But similar tests on DNA samples taken from 89-year-old Millicent Adriana Cummings have failed to help them to identify her killer.
The DNA samples in both cases were sent to Brazil some two years ago. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that police received the DNA results yesterday.
One sample was from elderly Millicent Adriana Cummings, called “Baby Prince”, who was raped and murdered at Cove-and John, East Coast Demerara in April, 2013.
Her semi-nude body was found beneath an abandoned house on the Cove and John Public Road. Police reportedly took samples from several suspects, as well as forensic evidence from beneath the slain woman’s fingernails, since it was suspected that she may have scratched her attacker.
However, Blanhum said that the results they received from Brazil were ‘inconclusive.’
The other samples were related to the murder of Maryann Nauth, who was stabbed to death in the K&VC Hotel in South Road on May 11, 2013.
The 31-year old mother of three children of Lot 110 Vryheid’s Lust North, East Coast Demerara, was discovered lying on a blood-soaked bed. Hotel employees recounted that Nauth’s lifeless body was found with a knife stuck in the centre of her chest and a rose and a photograph next to her.
The gruesome discovery was made hours before Mother’s Day. Her body reportedly bore over 30 stab wounds. There were reports that Nauth was last seen in the company of her estranged husband, Vinod Balgobin.
The couple of 13 years was separated after the woman reported that she had endured constant abuse at the hands of her spouse.
Crime Chief Blanhum said that samples were taken from a blood-stained pair of trousers that the husband was wearing. The samples were subsequently sent to a Brazil laboratory. The results confirmed that the blood on Balgobin’s trousers was his wife’s.
In March 2015, while the samples were still in Brazil, 35-year-old Balgobin was found guilty of his estranged wife’s murder and sentenced to 45 years in prison. Two years were deducted for time spent in prison prior to sentencing. He is required to serve 27 years before he is eligible for parole.
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