The step­fa­ther of four-year-old Ama­rah Lal­lite will spend the next two weeks at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal un­der ob­ser­va­tion.

Isan Con­stant was or­dered to un­der­go the eval­u­a­tion at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he made his first court ap­pear­ance for the child’s bru­tal mur­der be­fore High Court Mas­ter Mar­garet Sookraj-Goswa­mi yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the 39-year-old was re­port­ed­ly top­less when he first ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sookraj-Goswa­mi from the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion via video con­fer­enc­ing.

The court was then in­formed that Con­stant was re­port­ed­ly found cov­ered in fae­ces in the hold­ing cell at the po­lice sta­tion be­fore the vir­tu­al hear­ing.

Mas­ter Sookraj-Goswa­mi stood the case down briefly for po­lice of­fi­cers to as­sist Con­stant in get­ting dressed in­to clean cloth­ing.

When the case re­sumed, Con­stant did not an­swer ba­sic ques­tions posed by Mas­ter Sookraj-Goswa­mi, in­clud­ing even con­firm­ing his name.

Con­stant’s lawyer, Mario Mer­ritt, ap­plied for him to be sent for the men­tal health eval­u­a­tion. His ap­pli­ca­tion was al­so sup­port­ed by po­lice pros­e­cu­tors.

Con­stant was or­dered to reap­pear in court on May 1.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 10.10 pm last Mon­day, Lal­lite’s moth­er Tri­cia Vil­laru­el went to the po­lice sta­tion with her clothes tat­tered seek­ing help.

Po­lice of­fi­cers lat­er es­cort­ed her to her house at Fifth Street, Five Rivers, Arou­ca, which she shared with Con­stant and her daugh­ter.

The child’s body was found in one of the bed­rooms. Her sev­ered head was found in a bar­rel at the back of the house.

Con­stant was ar­rest­ed at the scene.

An au­top­sy con­duct­ed last week re­vealed that Ama­rah died of blunt force trau­ma to the head and de­cap­i­ta­tion.

It was al­leged that a car bat­tery was used to blud­geon the child and a pair of scis­sors was used to cut her lips and gouge out one of her eyes.

Con­stant was charged last Fri­day af­ter homi­cide de­tec­tives sought ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC.