Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
A day after her son appeared in court charged with her murder, Princes Town mother Marlah Boodram was laid to rest yesterday.
Boodram’s husband, Dennis Koat, stood over his wife’s casket and cried as other relatives and friends paid their last respects at Boodram’s Cleghorn Village, Princes Town home.
The casket was filled with roses and flowers. Following the service under Hindu rites, they proceeded to the Shore of Peace for the cremation.
The 56-year-old mother of two was beaten for more than 12 hours and died at her home on August 12.
Boodram’s husband, who is still recovering from gallbladder surgery, said he and his wife were trapped in the house by the attacker, and he was too “weak and small” to help her and was afraid that he would suffer the same fate.
It was alleged that the incident stemmed from an argument over money and the internet.
The older of Boodram’s two sons, Adrian Koat, appeared in court on Friday charged with his mother’s murder. The 31-year-old man was remanded into custody, and the matter was adjourned to next June.