–husband in police custody

A TWENTY-five-year-old mother of three children of Friendship, East Bank Demerara was found dead outside her home in the wee hours of the morning yesterday, and her 31-year-old husband is in police custody assisting with investigations.

Dead is Shelly Persaud, of 34 Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, whose body was found at the bottom of her back step, with her head in a bucket of water.
According to neighbours, she and her common-law husband, Vindra Krishna Siriram, who went home at about 01:45hrs reeking of alcohol, were heard arguing, but moments later, there was an abrupt silence.
The woman’s three children — eight-year-old Lisa; Ashley, four; and Arianna Siriram, two — who were reportedly home when the incident occurred, were so traumatised, they had to be taken to an uncle’s house.

Father of the deaceased, Mr. Orin Morris, an ex-policeman, said his son-in-law visited him yesterday morning and told him that his daughter was dead, but he didn’t know who killed her.
Morris said when he arrived on the scene, he saw his daughter’s body on the ground, her head in a bucket of water, at the back steps.
“When I see my daughter, I could not believe it was her! She was so blue! And her neck looked as if it was broken. If my son-in-law was home at that time, he supposed to know how this happen. My granddaughter told me that her father told her that ‘We nah gon see we mother; that tonight is her last night,’” Morris said, adding:
“Anytime my daughter and her husband fight, they always make up back within minutes;they were like two lovebirds; everybody in the village know that. I don’t know what could be the cause, and why this happen…”
The husband’s mother, Ms. Davedea Singh, said she always knew the couple to be very loving, so news of her daughter-in-law’s demise, allegedly at the hands of her son has so shocked her, she can hardly speak.

“I was at home in Sophia when I get the call; I was told that my daughter-in-law had died, but I could not believe. I was so shocked, I fell to the ground in tears. I don’t know why this happen,” Singh said.
Only last Wednesday, a murder/suicide rocked East Berbice when just days before her 15th birthday, schoolgirl, Tamesha La Toya Adams, called ‘Toya’, was knifed to death aback her adoptive parents’ home at Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice.
Her 23-year-old boyfriend, Kellon Sam, nicknamed ‘Gadget’, who had lost his job at a Cement Factory three weeks ago, was found hanging from a mango tree behind his parents’ residence, just a stone’s throw from where the lifeless body of the teenage girl was found.

(By Asif Hakim)