Maldives Police Services is seeking charges against two suspects in connection to the death of IGMH nurse Mary Grace.
The Filipino nurse's death was reported to the police as suicide by her husband, Marvin. The police started investigating the nurse's death on October 19 after flagging suspicions related to her death. Marvin was arrested the following day and remains in custody. On December 16, the police arrested Marvin's lover, Haleemath Lamha. The pair worked together in IGMH as nurses.
The police forwarded the case to the Prosecutor General's Office seeking charges against both Marvin and Lamha. The Prosecutor General's Office said the police sent the case last Sunday and that a decision on how to proceed would be made before next Tuesday.
Lamha is suspected of conspiring to murder, hiding the death, conspiracy to commit a crime, requesting to commit a crime, possessing resources used to commit the crime, and giving false information to an official authority.
Mary Grace's body was sent to India to conduct a post mortem, which ruled out suicide as a cause of death. The police said it is more likely that she was hit with an object or received an extensive injury at the hands of another person.
Marvin (L) with Haleemath Lamha (R)
