by Linda Straker
- Ambrose formally charged for offence of Non-Capital Murder
- Remanded to custody at Her Majesty’s Prisons
- Will return to court on 12 November 2021
Almost 4 months after a man was buried, police have charged a Guyanese woman for causing his death after an investigation conducted revealed that his death was a homicide.
Police said on Monday that the body was not exhumed, but the findings of a toxicology report which was analysed in another territory, as well a confession video, contributed to the charges against Shane Ann Ambrose. If found guilty she can be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment.
Ambrose, a 24-year-old national of Nonso, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana, who resided at Simon, St Andrew, was arrested, formally charged for the offence of Non-Capital Murder in connection with the death of Clifford Marshall.
Ambrose appeared at court on Friday, 29 October 2021, and was remanded to custody at Her Majesty’s Prisons. She will return to court on 12 November 2021.
In August, police confirmed that there is an active criminal investigation into the death of Clifford Marshall who died in June and was buried in July 2021. This confirmation came after Ambrose in a social media video posting claimed that she gave him poison and is not sure if she caused his death.
“I don’t know if I killed him, but I gave him poison,” said the young lady in the video. She claimed to be a 23-year-old Guyanese who was in a relationship for 3 years with Marshall.
“I gave him weedless poison, I don’t know if I killed him, but I know to myself that I gave him, I do it and it just hurting me. This is the first time I did something like this, I would not take it anymore, so I had to, I don’t know,” she said in the video as tears rolled down her eyes.
She claimed that he physically abused her and threatened her life as well as sexually assaulted her 3-year-old daughter on more than one occasion.
Let the woman go please!! what is she being held in prison for, her free speech? Do you call that a confession? I say she went insane under this jerk abuse. She is held purely on grounds of a social media post. In this woman’s right mind, would she have done that. I this her head is not in the right place, and the so called “investigators” needs to know what their claim against her is about. Is it their ideas, a non finding toxicology report (one that made no mention of the so called crime) and an assumption that they can create a guilty verdict without even exhuming the dead man. Jokers. That young woman needs a good “free” attorney to defend her rights.
Not condoning murder, but i did not see murder here. And, not being bias either, but if he is a child molester, they what is his need to be around. To attach my children and grand children. He needed to be somewhere out of the reach of children period!!
Why wasn’t the body exhumed for further clarity though? So you’re using a prior toxicology report that you didn’t see nothing wrong on it until she confessed, you looked at it closer i.e. sent to another territory for review… so if she didn’t confess then what? Seems strange. It’s still a crime and the law will obviously have to take its course though. So lets see
Why didnt she raise the child abuse claims with the police or child protection authorities. I know that an abused woman can feel coerced into silence but there needs to be stringent checks on what she is accusing the deceased of before any leniency is shown.
Seems to me that evidence is being produced on the media that if a jury trial were to follow, for she can still plead not guilty, then if she were found guilty she could appeal to a higher court on the ground that the jury had evidence before the trial and were able to discuss it outside the jury room. In the UK this could constitute a mistrial and contempt of court for the media.
I agree! The abuse she and her daughter may have experienced should absolutely be taken into consideration (and the negative impact of separating the two as well). It would be an outrage if she wasn’t shown leniancy – at least to some large degree – when he may have assaulted her little daughter.
A simple understanding of trauma and abuse will yield the fact that it’s very common for women to take it and take it and then finally one day they burst.
I do hope the courts will do their homework regarding domestic abuse.
If it is true what she said regarding her abuse and sexually abusing her 3 year old daughter. He deserved what he got and she should be set free.