– unaware wife in murder/suicide was in another relationship

ROBIN Hakim, the husband of Subrina “Priya” Nandram, 26, who, along wither her boyfriend, Kevin Singh, 26, was found dead in a room at Aracari Resort last Sunday, said he was unaware she was in a serious relationship with someone else.
Police have since ruled the deaths as murder /suicide. The pair had been in a relationship for the past two years.

Speaking with Guyana Chronicle, Hakim, 30, said he got married to
Nandram when she was only 13; he was 17 at the time. He said they had minor disagreements and claimed they were never separated.

According to Hakim, he left Guyana some three years ago to seek a better life for himself and family. In fact, he insisted that he spoke with Subrina daily and last did so on the day before she died.

He said he was planning to bring his family, including Subrina, with him overseas, in June. This message, he believed, might have been the cause of his wife’s death, when her boyfriend became aware that she never separated from him.
Hakim said he called his wife’s phone countless times on Sunday but received no answer. However on Sunday evening, he received a call that “Priya is
dead” and since then, he constantly breaks down in tears.

Earlier in the week, he spoke at length with Sabrina and told her to keep their sons, ages five and seven with her and get a transfer to let them attend school in Berbice until they join him in June.
But they decided against the move as it would be difficult for the children; hence, she left to take them back to his parents’ home on the East Coast of Demerara.

“I have always loved Priya and still do. I never know she was with someone… I can’t believe this happen to my wife… I was expecting her to go back to Berbice on Saturday… even after all this, I still love her. I always will,” he told Guyana Chronicle.

Hakim said he was unaware that his wife was seeing someone and even thought of marrying the person. However, he said in November last, he was aware that Kevin had visited his wife’s parents and asked for her hand in marriage.

ANGRY AND HURT
“Since the time we been together, I never hit or hurt her, not even a slap and for her to die like this she did not deserve it. I am so angry and hurt since I heard the news that she is dead and now to hear that this guy killed her; it makes me worse and confused,” the young father said.

According to Subrina’s mother, Sabita Singh, her daughter did not indicate to her she was still in contact with her husband or they were still together. She said if she knew, she would not have allowed her daughter to be in another relationship.

“Priya never tell me that she does speak with him or that they still together. As far as I know, since he left she tell me like them separate like two years now and she with this other boy. If only she had talk to me, this relationship that she had with Kevin would have never happen,” the mother said.

The woman also expressed disappointment over the way Singh family
had been saying they did not know her daughter or of the relationship. They had come to her home in November to ask for her hand in marriage.

Sabita believes that “Kevin” premeditated the act, and her daughter walked into the trap. On Tuesday when she spoke with the Guyana Chronicle, she was confident that her daughter would never end her life. The lifeless bodies of Singh and Subrina were discovered in a bathtub at Aracari Hotel and Resort, Region Three on Sunday.
Based on initial reports, the deaths were suspected to have been a case of murder/suicide. A post mortem conducted on the bodies on Wednesday concluded that Nandram died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head and manual strangulation. She was also beaten. Singh, according to the post mortem, died from pesticide poisoning.