Girl, 7, watches helplessly as mother is murdered

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD child watched helplessly as her father killed her mother at John’s, Port Mourant, Corentyne, yesterday. Reports said the man plunged a knife into the body of the woman in the compound of a grocery in the village, where she had gone to pay a debt.
The deceased is Yashwattie Samaroo, 43, of Second Street, John’s and the alleged killer is a 44-year-old cane harvester, who is a patient, under guard, at New Amsterdam Hospital, also in Berbice, after attempting to commit suicide.
Primary school pupil, Amanda Singh related, to the Guyana Chronicle, in the presence of her uncle, Takoor Budhoo, that she had accompanied her mother to the shop where the latter would usually take credit and return later in the day to pay for the merchandise.

The girl said that having paid the sum owed, her mother was leaving the premises when her father, who was following them, blocked her path.
“He wanted to tell mummy something, but she did not want to hear. He kept blocking her from leaving and she kept saying she did not want to hear. He then pulled out a knife from a socket, which was in a shopping bag, and started to bore her all over. My mother hollered until she fell,” the child said.
She said her father ran after her, but she escaped by running about two hundred meters away to inform her maternal grandmother what had happened.
Budhoo told this newspaper that his sister shared an abusive relationship with her husband with whom she lived for some 23 years.
“They are always fighting , especially when he consumes alcohol. They would separate but would later reconcile. Whenever he beats her, a report would be made at Whim Station but she would allow people to influence her and not pursue the matter in Court,” he said.

According to him, his sister would separate from her husband for about five to six months and move to their mother, Drupattie Samaroo’s home but he always follows her around.
Budhoo claimed that his brother-in-law had attempted to kill his sister a few days ago but he rescued her.
Meanwhile, at the scene of the killing, curious commuters stopped where the victim’s handbag was abandoned and her denim skirt and pink blouse bore evidence of the brutal slaying.
Police examined the corpse and caused photographs to be taken of the wounds visible on the throat, arms and abdomen of the woman neighbours described as a nice person.
Her relatives said her husband went home at John’s Squatting Area, where he made an unsuccessful bid to take his own life before being arrested by Police, who first took him to Port Mourant Hospital, from where he was transferred to New Amsterdam Hospital.
Samaroo also leaves to mourn sons, Vishal, 21 and Neshal, 16.

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