Taxi driver pleads guilty to killing Sophia mother of one

A 37-year-old taxi driver has pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the death of a Sophia, Greater Georgetown woman, Simone Hackett whose lifeless body was pulled from a trench in 2016.

Ranachal Singh c/d ‘Andy’ and his co-accused Clevaughn Hamilton c/d ‘Quarters’, 44, the father of Hackett’s child, appeared before Demerara High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon on Thursday.

Both men were indicted for the capital offence of murder. Singh, however, opted to plead guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter.

He was remanded to prison until September 26 when he will be sentenced.

For Hamilton, who is maintaining his innocence, a 12-member jury was empanelled to try his case.

Clevaughn Hamilton

Hackett, 25, a mother of one, had left her ‘C’ Field Sophia home on April 16, 2016, to pick up a package that she was told was sent for her son, who was celebrating his birthday the next day.

She, however, never returned home. Three days later on April 19, 2016, two schoolboys found her body in a trench between Third and Fourth streets, Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown.