Corentyne man on attempted murder charge over burning of wife
Ganeshwar Sheocharran, the Corentyne hire car driver who allegedly set his wife on fire and then fled to the United States to escape justice, was remanded to prison on Friday after he was charged with attempted murder.
Sheocharran, 27, of Lot 16 Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant, Corentyne, appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 7, where he was charged with the attempted murder of Sandrama Roma Raju, 29. He was not required to enter a plea to the charge and was remanded to prison.
He will return to court on October, 6.
Raju, Sheocharran’s wife of six years with whom he shares a fouryear-old daughter, remains at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in a critical condition after being burned during the wee hours of Monday. She is said to have sustained burns to 98% of her body.
Her parents yesterday related, that while she has shown some improvements, her condition remains serious. “She a talk lil bit and so now,” her father, Subramanie Raju, 60, of Number One Public Road, Corentyne, said. The father had previously explained to this publication that he was told that his daughter and her husband were engaged in a heated argument that started just around 9 pm last Sunday and that she had threatened to separate from Sheocharran. After the man would not allow her to leave, she allegedly doused herself with kerosene oil and he allegedly set her on fire.
Following the incident, Sheocharran fled the scene and went into hiding after which he made attempts to flee to New York, where his parents reside. On Tuesday evening, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) received information that the man was on board a flight to New York, causing them to immediately reach out to the immigration authorities at JFK Airport.
The GPF also issued a wanted bulletin on Tuesday evening for the man, which resulted in the immiration authorities at JFK detaining Sheocharran and placing him on a flight back to Guyana, where he was immediately arrested upon his return.