Slain Princes Town woman’s funeral day after son faces court

Mother of two Marlah Boodram, 56, is set to be cremated on August 17, the day after her son faced a master in the High Court charged with her murder.

A relative confirmed that the funeral takes place at the family’s home at Cleghorn Village, Princes Town. Then the body will be taken to the Shore of Peace (Mosquito Creek) Cremation Site in La Romaine.

Boodram, also called Marlene, the grandmother of one, from the Naparima/Mayaro Road, was beaten to death on August 12. Her battered body was found in an empty room on the first floor of her two-storey house.

Princes Town police arrested her son, Adrian Koat, 31, at the house shortly afterwards and handed him over to the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, Region Three.

Koat lives in the house and works as an accountant at the Water and Sewerage Authority in San Fernando. He is an outpatient of the psychiatric ward of the San Fernando General Hospital.

After consulting with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the police were instructed to charge Koat on August 15.

Supt Persad, ASP Maharaj and Sgt Bridgemohan led the investigations. PC Ramdhanie laid the charge.

On August 16, Koat faced Master Margaret Sookraj-Goswami in the South Criminal High Court.

He was denied bail and remanded into police custody to reappear in court on June 12, 2025.