Twenty-four year old Quamise Vance will appear before a San Fernando Magistrate today, charged with the murder of his common law wife Sadie Dasrath.

Vance, who hails from La Romaine and works as a security officer, was charged with the crime over the weekend, just over one week after the 31 year old woman was killed on December 3rd.

According to police reports, during the wee hours of December 3rd, the suspect told an off-duty police officer who resides at an apartment complex along Temple Street, La Romaine, that around 1 am, he found his common law wife unresponsive at their shared home.

The man told the police officer that around 11 pm on December 2nd, he and  the woman allegedly had an argument over the consumption of alcohol. The off-duty police officer, acting on the information relayed to him visited the apartment where he reportedly discovered the lifeless and nude body of the man’s wife lying upon a bed in the bedroom.

The woman’s body bore a wound to her head. The off-duty police officer immediately called for assistance from police dispatchers who deployed several units to the scene.

Further enquiries into Dasrath’s death revealed that a post mortem on her body determined that her fatal injuries which included broken ribs were sustained contrary to that which was reported to police.