Georgetown: After being sentenced to 83-years for killing his wife in May, 2019, Michael Anthony Persaud initiating the process of a new trial after applying before the Court of Appeal. On Wednesday, he was he was sentenced to 15 years and six months imprisonment after he confessed to strangling his 19-year-old reputed wife in 2011 at their Sophia, Georgetown home and sleeping next to her corpse.
The 35 year old killed his wife Maduri Padumdeo, called ‘Sharda’, at their Lot 8 North Sophia, Greater Georgetown residence on December 23, 2011.
Persaud, called ‘Mickey’ was charged with the capital offence of murder but opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter when he appeared before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the Demerara High Court.
He admitted that on December 23, 2011, he unlawfully killed Maduri Padumdeo, called ‘Sharda.’
In November 2014, Persaud was sentenced to 83 years imprisonment by Justice Navindra Singh for the same offence after he was found guilty of murder by a 12-member jury, however, he appealed the conviction.
The Court of Appeal later overturned the conviction and ordered a retrial which led to Persaud’s guilty plea Wednesday.
Justice Kissoon ordered that Persaud’s time spent on remand since December 29, 2011, be deducted from his sentence by prison authorities.
In December 2011, Padumdeo’s body was discovered naked in the bedroom of her 10×10 apartment, with a black and white wire wrapped around her neck.
According to reports, the body of Padumdeo, then 19, was discovered naked in her apartment with a black and white wire wrapped around her neck. It was reported that a day prior to the gruesome discovery one of the woman’s neighbours saw Persaud dragging her into the apartment. A postmortem examination conducted on Padumdeo revealed that she died of ligature strangulation.
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