Husband charged with killing his wife

Ryan Sagar, a 25-year-old fireman charged with killing his wife, Debbie-Ann Ramnath, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Mark Wel-lington in the San Fer-nando First Court. Sombre relatives of  Sagar,  filled the court  in a show of support for him. On Tuesday, Sagar’s attorneys filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Port-of-Spain High Court to determine why he was detained by police for 120 hours. However the writ was overturned by High Court Justice Allan Mendonca, paving the way for his appearance yesterday in the San Fernando Magistrates Court to answer the murder charge. The charge against Sagar, who attended his wife’s funeral service, was that sometime be-tween Friday June 13 and Tuesday June 17, he murdered Ramnath. After the charge was read out, Magistrate Wellington remanded Sagar in custody and adjourned the case to July 8. As the accused was led away by Court and Pro-cess police, his relatives and friends quietly left the court-room, leaving the public sitting area of the court-room almost empty. Ramnath, 28, a train-ee teacher was found dead at the side of the road leading to the Corinth Teachers Train-ing College on June 16. An autopsy carried out at the Forensic Sciences Centre revealed she was strangled to death.