29-year-old Neil Madramootoo of Shoe Lane New Amsterdam was not required to plead to the charge when it was read to him by Magistrate Peter Hugh in the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court today.
The allegation is that on October 01, 2023, he attempted to kill his fiance’, 32-year-old Ashmin Mahadeo at her Williamsburg Corentyne home.
Police prosecutor, Vadesh Jattan objected to bail given the fact that the victim is still in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital. However, his objection was overruled by the Magistrate who granted the accused 500,000 bail and ordered that he report to the station every other week and also lodge his travel document.
Mahadeo was found with a gunshot wound to her neck on the day in question, just three weeks away from marrying the accused who she shared a seven-year common-law relationship with.
According to information received, at about 07 hours 40 on the day in question, Mahadeo was at home when she was visited by the suspect who was supposed to take her to get her nails done.
They both then left her parent’s Williamsburg home when family members heard a loud explosion and upon checking discovered the injured woman lying motionless at the gate with blood oozing from her mouth.
The male suspect reportedly rushed back into the house and alerted other relatives of what transpired and later returned outside at the scene.
Ashmin’s brother, Naresh Mahadeo had told reporters that after hearing the explosion he rushed out of the yard to see whether anyone left the scene while his wife tried to resuscitate his sister.
thenewsdeskgy.com understands that the woman was shot from the back of her neck and the bullet exited and hit a box in the woman’s family yard. Her cell phone as well as the cellphone belonging to the suspect could not be found. But were later recovered in a vehicle utilized by the accused.
Police later found an unlicensed firearm hidden in the woman’s bedroom where the accused had entered before heading back outside to assist with taking her to the hospital.
The matter will be called again on November 08.
