A TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD mother of three committed suicide in New Charity Housing Scheme around 21:30 hrs on Tuesday.
Serena Smith took her life by hanging, her father, Randolph Taylor told the Guyana Chronicle. The 61-year-old Market Clerk of Charity/Urasara Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) said his daughter, the sixth of 12 children, was very quiet, kind and loving.
Taylor said he was in bed when he heard their telephone ring and his wife, who answered, started to scream and on enquiring of her what was wrong, she said their daughter had just hanged herself.
The father said he became confused as he had spoken to his daughter about 14:30 hrs that afternoon, when he passed her weeding the yard where she lived and stopped to chat with her.
The man said his son, Tazie Taylor told him Serena left her husband, Grey Smith and their three children, a five-year-old and two-year-old twin boys in their house and went to take a bath in an outside bathroom.
After a long time, her husband went to check on her and, not finding her in the bathroom, hurried to the toilet, where he found the door locked from inside. He peered inside and saw his wife dangling on a piece of polythene rope from her neck tied to the roof.
Taylor said the husband took a knife, cut the rope and forced the door open but his wife was already dead.
The couple had a misunderstanding around 18:00 hrs that afternoon and police have taken the husband into custody to assist with investigations.
Meanwhile, two persons who died by suicide in Charity Housing Scheme were buried on Tuesday.