— boyfriend in police custody

A MASON is in police custody following the discovery of his girlfriend hanging in the bathroom of her home at Dairy, La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Wednesday.
The 26- year-old teacher of La Grange Secondary School was identified as Tishauna Bess. The body is at the Lyken Funeral Home and a post-mortem is expected to be done on Friday.
Reports indicate that after Bess’s relatives could not reach her on her cellular phone since Monday, they decided to visit her home to check on her, but the house was locked.
Police were then summoned and with the permission of the family, the door was forced open and the gruesome discovery was made. Bess was found hanging and her body appeared bloated, suggesting that she had died days ago.
Relatives in an interview with this publication noted that Bess and her boyfriend Elston Sertima were in an abusive relationship.
This resulted in her leaving him and renting a house recently in Dairy, La Parfaite Harmonie,WBD. The dead woman’s father, Kenneth Bess, told the Guyana Chronicle that he learnt of his daughter’s death after her mother visited her home and made the discovery.
Expressing grave shock, the father of four, who is a contractor, said his daughter’s boyfriend worked with him on a project as recent as Tuesday last.
“I called him and asked what happened to my daughter and he said he heard that she is dead, I said therefore you got to know what happen to she because is you and she is be together,” he reflected.
Adding that he had visited his daughter’s home on Wednesday when the gruesome discovery was made, Mr Bess said he could not bear the pain of seeing his daughter dead and decided not to go into the bathroom.
“If I only go and see I might have died myself. Based on the investigation, the police said she could not have hanged herself in such a position as she was found,” he said.
The father said the police contacted the abusive boyfriend and he turned himself in to them.

FEELING
Mother of the teacher, Angela James, said after she did not hear from her daughter for days she felt something was wrong.
The mother of three said she last saw her daughter Monday and the same outfit she wore on that day, she was discovered dead with on Wednesday.
“I felt sick from Tuesday, I was getting a pain that is similar to when I was in labour, my entire body was hurting and I said something was wrong to my daughter. I was feeling it deep inside my belly,” the mother explained.
She said immediately after she tried to contact her daughter on her two cell numbers but to no avail.
Sensing something was amiss, she then contacted her daughter’s father and told him of her feelings and he was also unable to get into contact.
“I told him I am not staying at work, something was wrong and I had to find my daughter on that same day! I went over to a cousin and tell her how I feel and me and she decide to go over to my daughter’s house,” she said.
Upon reaching the Dairy, La Parfaite Harmonie house, the mother explained that immediately after walking around the house, she sensed something inside her gut was wrong and she then visited the police station to seek assistance in getting into the house.
“When I walked around the outside of the house where the bathroom was, I felt the same baby pain and I know right there and then my daughter was in the house. I knocked and called at the front and back door, but there was no answer,” she added.
She explained that with the aid of police assistance and her two sons and relatives, they managed to gain access to the house where the body was found.
The parents and relatives are calling on the police to do a detailed investigation to ensure whoever is the perpetrator, the person should face the full force of the law.