— 2 arrested

By Rabindra Rooplall
FOLLOWING screams of “Help! Police!” in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, police discovered the lifeless body of 49-year-old security guard Latchmini Shivpujan in her apartment at Old Road, Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD).The mother of two was employed by Kalibur Security Service and was previously stationed at the GECOM office at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara.

Police have since apprehended an ex-boyfriend and his relative, who are assisting with investigations.

Shivpujan’s body was discovered with lacerations on the upper right thigh close to the waist.

According to reports, another woman, named Emanuel Lawrence, live in the upper flat of the building, and she told police that in the wee hours of Tuesday morning she heard Latchmini saying “Ow man don’t do that!” then shouts of “Manny! Manny!” apparently calling on her, but she heard nothing after.

Residents in the area said the woman, who used to entertain many male visitors at her home, was heard screaming for help intermittently, and a phone call was made to the police station.

A patrol visited the home at “day clean”, when the body was discovered.

However, a police source disclosed that a patrol was dispatched to the area when a call was made on the first occasion, but the police did not locate the address given.
Police subsequently returned, and then they made the discovery.

An unfazed elder sister, Mahadai Singh, said she would not be attending Shivpujan’s funeral, since there is nothing good she can say about her sister, and other family members feel the same.

“Almost 15 years ago, she came from Venezuela and dumped her two children on me and she gone, and meh ain’t no where she gone. The boy and girl who was under 10 years born and grow in Venezuela and they couldn’t speak English. My brother-in-law had to take back the children to Venezuela because they missed their father,” she explained.

Ms Singh said the now dead woman has eight sisters and a brother, who have not had any real bonding relationship with her.

“Imagine none of her family ain’t got no photo of her, proper contact with her; we don’t even know where she live, her children in Venezuela don’t even know if she is dead. That is the life she lived. She wasn’t close with nobody. That was the life she wanted, reckless and carefree. She was a very beautiful woman, one time she hair ‘red, red’ with one man, and another time she deh with another,” her sister recounted.