JOEL Rodriguez, the Cuban who allegedly knifed and hammered his partner and her daughter to death, was, on Thursday remanded to prison.
Rodriguez, also known as Yoel Rodriguez Barientos, appeared before the Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on two counts of murder and was remanded to prison until January 18, 2021.
Particulars of the charges alleged that between December 25 and December 26, 2020, at Princess Street Lodge, he murdered Tara Krishnaran, 34, who was a salesgirl, and her daughter, Larissa Singh, 11. The Guyana Chronicle had reported that, on December 26, after receiving the report of the murders, investigators visited the scene and discovered the mother and daughter in a bedroom at their Princes Street, Lodge, Georgetown residence by the woman’s father who also resides there.

The police said that the woman was discovered with a wound to the back of the head, left side temple and left side of the face. Meanwhile, her daughter had a wound, about six inches in length, to her neck and what appeared to be blood on her private part. A blood stained hammer and knife – were also retrieved.
The bodies were taken to the Lyken Funeral Home. An autopsy conducted on the mother and her daughter found that they died from blunt trauma to the head.

According to the police report, the woman’s father said the couple had an argument on Christmas Day and since such arguments were common, he went to bed. However, on Boxing Day, he did not check on them as he thought the woman went to work and took her daughter along with her.

Later that night, however, the elderly man realised that he was locked inside the house and went into the room of the victims when he made the gruesome discovery; his grand-daughter was lying on the ground and his daughter was lying on the bed.
The Guyana Chronicle understands that the woman, her daughter and the alleged killer, for about eight months, lived in the house, which belongs to the woman’ father.
The woman met the Cuban man at the store where she worked, and they were in a relationship for more than a year.
Reports indicate that the man would accompany Krishnaran to family functions, but relatives noted that he appeared to be a jealous individual.
“We would be together (at a family function) and a boy could walk in, even if it was my brother… if he just looked at her, he would get angry about it,” the relative said.