ROSANNA Lakhpal, 17, was on Saturday found with a gaping wound to the throat and wrapped in a pair of sheets at her Number Two Village home, East Canje, Berbice, minutes after an altercation with her much older boyfriend.
The concealed body of Lakhpal was discovered by Nadia Persaud, 41, who went to the home after responding to an urgent call from her 10- year-old daughter Zailoon, who witnessed the altercation.

Zailoon had moments before ran a few yards away to her mother, clutching her crying two-year-old sister, in arms, to report that “Ryan and Rosanna were fighting.”
It was not an unusual occurrence. They would normally fight, but apparently Rosanna felt that something was amiss as “she had collected my two daughters from my home at Canefield Village, also in East Canje, and brought them to her home, whilst I was working at Classic Car Wash,’’ Persaud said.

She added: “So, whilst I was at work, Zailoon came with the baby and reported the fighting. However, when I got to the scene, I started to call for Rosanna but there was no response. I looked around but saw no one. I assumed that the couple had left. So I was about to put my children in a car to send them home when I saw my Rakhi brother ‘Hooke’ coming and he asked what happen. ‘Hooke’ and Rosanna’s mother are in a relationship.
“Consequently, we returned into the lower flat of the two-storey building. Again we called for Rosanna. At that point we assumed she was hiding from us as she would normally do so. But after careful checks, we saw her foot protruding from under a sheet and after a closer inspection, we realised that she was wrapped in two sheets. A pillow was close by. It is believed that she was stifled before her throat was slit. She was lifeless and unresponsive,” Persaud said.

The Guyana Chronicle was told that Rosanna’s boyfriend was quarrelling with her over relationships.
At the time of the quarrel, the teen was on the upper flat of the building and the suspect reportedly grabbed her by her hair and pulled her down the inner stairs.
“As he pulled her, the baby fell out of her hands. I went to pick up the baby, who was then crying. He told me to take my sister and go out of the yard before he hit me. But as I was leaving the kitchen area Rosanna kept calling,’Moma! Moma! Moma! which is my home name, but I could not help her. I was afraid. I ran to my mother instead,” the eyewitness said.

The suspect in Lakhpal’s killing was reportedly seen walking calmly away from the scene, heading in the direction of the Canje overpass.
He is yet to be arrested as the police continue the investigation.

Following the incident , scores of neighbours and curious personnel gathered at the scene, where persons reminisced on the June murder of fellow villager Mintie Karamchand , aged 40 years who was fatally wounded at her Lot 19 Sheet Anchor Village, by her now deceased husband Goldburn December.