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Mar 15, 2016 News
– Used paling stave to sexually assault wife
Justice Navindra Singh imposed a 15-year jail sentence on Ganga Persaud yesterday after he was found guilty of attempting to murder his ex-wife Sumintra Rampersaud. Persaud was charged for attempted murder but he also faced an alternative charge of felonious wounding.
According to the indictment, on July 29, 2009, Persaud, 54, of Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, a former employee of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) caused grievous bodily harm to his spouse with the intent to murder.
It is also alleged that on July 29, 2009 Persaud caused grevious bodily harm to
Rampersaud with the intent to maim disfigure or disable her.
During the trial State Prosecutors Siand Dhurjon and Narissa Leander called three witnesses to the stand. In his opening address, Prosecutor Dhurjon told the court that Rampersaud was attacked as she conversed with a male friend with whom her husband suspected she was having an affair.
According to the Prosecutor, Persaud dealt his wife several punches to her stomach and head until she fell unconscious.
The woman was then stripped and her husband used a “paling stave” which was approximately 1.5 inches in width and shoved it between her legs, causing gashes to an area close to her vagina. According to the Prosecutor, in addition to assaulting the woman with the stave, Persaud penetrated the woman’s vagina with his fingers at the same time telling the man she was with, “You next; this is wuh yuh been want see.”
Persaud had pleaded not guilty to the charges. He contended that he was innocent but was beaten by the police to admit to a crime he did not commit.
However after two hours of deliberation, the 12-member mixed jury returned a verdict of guilty in relation to attempted murder.
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