Police have charged Shane Anthony, husband of Christianburg Primary School teacher Melissa Anthony, with her murder following a week of intense investigations. SHANE ANTHONY
Anthony, also a school teacher in Linden, was held for continuous questioning by detectives since Melissa was found dead at their home at 134 Hippani Oval in Retrieve, Linden, two Saturdays ago. They were married in 2003. Melissa Anthony's body was discovered by her nephew Tristan Grant in a pool of blood. MELISSA-ANTHONY
Her head was bashed in while she was cooking and preparing to go to Bible sessions at her Jehovah Witnesses church. Shane Anthony, also a member of the church and a teacher at the Mackenzie High School, was said to be teaching at his normal Saturday lessons when his wife was found dead. Sources said two persons came forward to give evidence in the police probe while led to the murder charged against the husband. Detectives from Georgetown were in Linden looking for clues in the teachers' quarters building where the couple lived. Sources also said that the couple had a tussle in the yard not long before the wife was killed. Courtesy of Guyana Chronicle |