POLICE are awaiting a laboratory blood analysis of items retrieved from the scene of the triple murders at West Coast Demerara, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud reported yesterday. He said, pending that development, the reputed husband of the slain woman and her two children and his uncle were released on station bail.
Forty-one-year-old Jennifer Persaud and her two sons, Afridi Persaud, six years and Jadon Persaud, 17 months, were found with their throats slit in their Sea View, Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara home, on September 22.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law Enforcement) said blood recovered from the victims’ clothing and other things in the house were taken away by detectives to be analysed.
Meanwhile, a post mortem, performed by Government Pathologist, Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan, on September 24, confirmed the cause of their deaths as haemorrhage and shock due to stab wounds.