body of US-based citizen…Wife, female cousin charged with husband’s murde

The wife of US-based Guyanese Abdool Shakeel Majid and a female cousin were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of the 43-year-old man, whose body was found on the Number 56 Village foreshore last month.
Majid’s wife, Hemwattie Abdulla 37, also known as Anita Nazeema Khan, a nurse of Albion, Corentyne and of 11602 –132 Ozone Park, New York, USA, and her alleged accomplice, Seerojonie Permaul, called “Usha,” age 42, of 52 Belvedere Housing Scheme, Corentyne

Berbice, appeared before Magistrate Krisendat Persaud at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
It is alleged that on April 26, last, at No 63 Beach, the accused murdered Abdool Shakeel Majid, 43, a citizen of the United States of America.
The matter has been transferred to the No 51 Magistrate’s Court, where the accused are scheduled to make a second appearance today.
Majid’s body, with scalp missing, was found on April 27 at the Number 56 Village, Corentyne foreshore. The remains were only identified on May 16, last, when the victim’s brother visited Guyana.
Following investigations, police impounded a car that was suspect

Abdool Shakeel Majid and Hemwattie Abdulla got married last December. Close relatives of the victim said that 43-year-old Majid had taken out a million-dollar insurance policy in the United States last March. He had also been awarded a hefty settlement after being injured in an accident.