Friday, February 15 2008

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Off to court: WPC Coutain escorts Diana Charles, who is pregnant, to the Sangre Grande Magistrates' Court yesterday. Charles has been charged with the...

A pregnant woman, 21, yesterday appeared in court charged with the murder of her 17-year-old brother Kerry Maraj.

Diana Charles, a mother of three, stood before Magistrate Judy Gordon at the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge that she stabbed Maraj in his neck during an argument over food at their Balandra home on Monday. Maraj died at hospital at the Eric Williams Medical Science Complex, Mt Hope on Tuesday morning.

Charles, who is four months pregnant, was charged on Wednesday night by Cpl Garcia of the Toco Police Station, on the instruction of Director of Public Prosecutions Geoffrey Henderson.

She was remanded in custody and Gordon adjourned the case to February 22.