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 charge of murder.
She was not required to plea to the indictable charge which states that on October 2, at Plantation Ross, she murdered 72-year-old Barbara Crawford, a pensioner of Ameila’s Ward, Linden.
Walters was unrepresented.
The murder weapon was a knife which investigators were able to retrieve.
Police Prosecutor Sergeant Garfield Edwards said 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.
The case was transferred to the Weldaad Magistrates Court and comes up again on November 7, when the police would be expected to provide an update.
The victim’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 ill. She reportedly seeks treatment at a mental health clinic in Region Six.
It had been reported 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 women for some time and with assistance from others, they were able to relieve her of the weapon.
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