AN autopsy conducted on the body of Albouystown businesswoman, Nalinie Persaud, on Friday, revealed that she died due to compression to the neck and blunt trauma to the head.

The businesswoman was robbed and strangled to death in the wee hours of Thursday morning, while her husband was tied to a chair with duct tape on his mouth and beaten. The 56-year-old called “Nalo” of Lot 161 James Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, died during the course of a robbery at her residence after being attacked by four masked bandits.

Police said that two of the bandits, who were armed with handguns, had attacked the woman and when they escaped, the businesswoman’s lifeless body was discovered with a rope, which was used to strangle her, tied around the neck. Police confirmed that cash and jewellery were carted off by the bandits who ransacked the premises.

They gained entry by removing a board from the northern wall of the lower flat of the house. The victim’s husband was assaulted and taken out of the bedroom into the lower flat of the premises, which housed a grocery shop, where he was bound to a chair and duct-taped. No arrest has yet been made.