–Injured British citizen goes into hiding
INVESTIGATORS are continuing their probe into Friday night’s murder of 55-year-old Donna Taylor, and injury of her UK-based friend, Samantha Sabat, who jumped through a bedroom window and had to be hospitalised when persons invaded the home of the now dead woman.

A citizen of the United Kingdom, Sabat was yesterday discharged from a city hospital; and the Guyana Chronicle was informed that her relative accompanied her to Taylor’s home, from where she collected a few belongings and disappeared.

Bertram Taylor, husband of the dead woman, yesterday confirmed that Sabat has been discharged from hospital. He said her relatives seemed very shaken, and were in a hurry to have her move as far away as possible from the house where the incident occurred, and from those associated with the affected family, in an attempt to protect the woman.

Taylor is pleading with members of the public to come forward with any information they might have in relation to what had happened on Friday night, since his wife’s family wants to have early closure and justice in the matter.

The Guyana Chronicle has been reliably informed that the police still have the Guyana Defence Force rank in custody for the murder of Donna Taylor, and have now included, as part of their investigation, collecting all the information necessary about the woman.

The woman, whose only name was given as Abby, is said to be the main suspect in the murder, after she was seen at the police station with a different pants to the one she was spotted by investigators wearing earlier at the scene.

When questioned, the woman said she had not been wearing any other pants, and did not have a change of clothing; but after intense questioning, she eventually told investigators that she did in fact have a change of pants, and that was because the one she had been wearing earlier was smeared with paint.

She was then asked to accompany the ranks to the home, where she showed them the pants she had been wearing earlier, which appeared to have been stained with blood, and not paint, as the woman would have investigators believe.

The female GDF rank was the girlfriend of the dead woman’s son, but the young man had recently broken off the relationship with her because of what relatives said was her aggressive attitude towards him, something his relatives did not approve.

The Chronicle was also told that the young man had shared a very close relationship with his mother, and because of that relationship, the suspect was of the view that the woman had influenced her son’s decision to sever the relationship.

Several efforts by this newspaper to make contact with the relatives of the UK citizen yesterday were unsuccessful. It is not clear if the British High Commission would have contacted the woman, and if efforts were being made to have her leave the country at the earliest possible time.

Ms Sabat had travelled to Guyana to attend the funeral of her father, who was buried two weeks ago.
Yesterday, Mr. Taylor said that the woman would not speak much of the incident since, according to her, she knows very little of what occurred. This publication was told that the woman had decided to jump through the window after the persons who came into the house were attempting to break down the door to the bedroom in which she had secured herself.

However, when the woman jumped through the window, she apparently hurt herself, was temporarily handicapped, and had to be rushed to the hospital by persons who responded to the scene.

Persons had indicated to family members of the now dead Donna Taylor that they had heard a noise in the upper flat of the home. No one had dared to venture outside, and it is not clear if anyone had contacted the police.
Written By Leroy Smith