PATRICIA Theresa Lowton, 58, a mother of four who resided at lot 366 Section ‘C’, Block ‘Y’, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara has been identified as the woman who committed suicide by jumping from the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Tuesday afternoon.The woman’s daughter, Simone Lowton, confirmed to this publication yesterday that she along with her niece and mother left their Grove home together at approximately 08.30 hrs on Tuesday.
She said that she had to take her niece to school while her mother was going to the Georgetown Public Hospital to have a blood test. The young lady explained that later in the day her brother and sister-in-law began looking for Mrs. Lowton who had failed to return home, as that is not usual.
The couple searched at various places for the woman, including at police stations, but there was no sighting of her. Although they heard that a woman had jumped from the Demerara Harbour Bridge they paid little attention to the report since the woman had never indicated that she had suicidal tendencies.
However, after hearing what the woman was wearing when she approached the bridge, they became somewhat suspicious and were allowed to see some amount of footage captured by surveillance cameras.
The young lady said that her mother left home wearing a brown skirt, striped top with a black shoulder bag and matching shoes. The woman’s body was identified yesterday at the Lyken Funeral Parlour.
A post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted on the body tomorrow.
Mrs. Lowton had not been working for some time but she was a cleaner at a primary school in her community.
Her daughter recalled that the woman’s husband who was in the Guyana Defence Force was fatally stabbed by a colleague during a fracas twenty-three years ago.
Sources have indicated to this newspaper that since the death of her husband, the woman was receiving psychiatric treatment from Dr. Bhiro Harry and unconfirmed reports also suggested that the woman was also a patient of Dr. Frank Beckles.
When the Chronicle visited the woman’s home yesterday, relatives and friends were placing calls to the woman’s children to offer their condolences.

(By Leroy Smith )