THE husband and other relatives of a young woman who was killed in an accident on the Essequibo Coast on Saturday remain in a state of shock, as they try to come to grips with her death.
Twenty-eight-year-old Simona Manrai had two children – ages 10 and 7; she died on the Hibernia Public Road, Essequibo Coast at around 13:30h on Saturday after the car she was in crashed into a parked vehicle. The driver of the car is alleged to be her lover; he was identified as Terry Samuels, 23, a Police Constable.
Samuels escaped unhurt. This newspaper reported that the policeman was allegedly speeding when he and Simona had a heated argument, and she held onto the steering wheel resulting in his losing control and slamming into the parked car.

Samuels told reporters that he and Simona were heading to Supenaam; he claimed that the argument started after she accused him of being unfaithful. The Constable alleged that Williams pulled the steering to the left, and that it was while pulling it back to the right that he lost control and crashed into motorcar PPP 4196, which was parked on the eastern parapet.
Simona resided with her husband and two children at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, but after her husband, who is a mechanic, left for work in the interior, she moved to her mother’s place at Good Hope, Supenaam; the couple also shared a house behind her mother’s residence in Supenaam.

The mother, Yonette Williams, during an interview with this newspaper, said she was shocked to discover that her daughter was having an affair with a policeman. According to Williams, on the day of the accident, Simona left home and her two children under the pretext that she was going to a pharmacy at Anna Regina.
“I am quite disturbed over her death. She (Simona) just woke up and was hustling her work when she just left without telling me that she was leaving for Anna Regina,” the distraught mother said.

Meanwhile, Simona’s husband, who only identified himself as Manraj, said he last spoke with her around 13:00h on Saturday and she claimed she was heading home.
“Is just the other day I was telling her it’s one year since we didn’t have an argument and misunderstanding. I am very loyal to my wife and we have two children. I send $350,000 for her monthly; I can’t believe what I am hearing,” Manraj told this newspaper.
They have been married since 2009. Simona’s body is at the Suddie Mortuary awaiting a post mortem examination while Samuels remain under close arrest at the Suddie Police Station.