SARAH Bacchus Arjoon, a 56-year-old saleswoman from Lot 755 Recht-Door-Zee, was murdered on Sunday, allegedly by her husband Khemraj Arjoon, 69, who later died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where he was admitted under guard after ingesting a poisonous substance.

The sequence of events unfolded between 11:30 hrs and 15:30 hrs at the couple’s residence. The woman’s motionless body was found by her 13-year-old daughter when she got home at 15:30 hrs.
According to information from the Guyana Police Force, the body was found lying in a pool of blood inside the bedroom. The teen also found her father gasping for breath on the bed, emitting a strong smell of poison.

“A note implicating Sarah in an alleged affair was found nearby. The note was written on a piece of cardboard. Neighbours and police were then alerted,” the police said.
When officers arrived at the scene, they questioned the murder suspect who admitted to ingesting a poisonous substance, and he directed ranks to the area where he threw the bottle suspected to contain the poisonous substance.

Police also took possession of the suspected murder weapon, a knife, which was found at the scene along with a “note”.
Sarah was pronounced dead at the scene, and her body is at the Ezekiel Funeral Home, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
The murder suspect died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital while receiving medical treatment on Sunday evening.