A Debe woman who is ac­cused of mur­der­ing her moth­er is now re­mand­ed at the Women’s Prison in Arou­ca.

Melis­sa Jages­sar, 35, a Cepep work­er, was sent to the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal for a men­tal eval­u­a­tion dur­ing her first vir­tu­al court ap­pear­ance be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Armi­na De­onar­i­nesingh on April 28.

When the mat­ter came up again in the San Fer­nan­do Charge Court last Thurs­day, the mag­is­trate re­mand­ed her in the prison based on a re­port she re­ceived from the hos­pi­tal.

How­ev­er, Jages­sar has to un­der­go psy­chi­atric ses­sions and take her med­ica­tion for pre-ex­ist­ing med­ical con­di­tions while in the prison.

Jages­sar is charged with mur­der­ing her 62-year-old moth­er Si­ta Jages­sar on April 19.

Ini­tial re­ports stat­ed that Si­ta’s 13-year-old grand­daugh­ter dis­cov­ered her body at their Clarkia Dri­ve home when she re­turned from school.

Jages­sar lived in a sep­a­rate area on the same com­pound. An au­top­sy re­vealed Si­ta was beat­en and stran­gled.

Jages­sar was charged by WPC Massy of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion Three.

Jages­sar was rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­neys In­di­ra Bin­da and Satesh Em­rit. The mat­ter was trans­ferred to the First Court for June 9

— Sascha Wil­son

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