A 64-year-old housewife was found dead on Saturday at her Lot 1118 Belle West, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home, the police said in a statement.
Parbhudai Boodhram, also known as Renie, was murdered by unknown person(s) between 20:00 hrs on Friday and 08:00 hrs on Saturday.

Enquiries disclosed that the victim resided with her husband, Anthony Alphonso Boodhram, called Tony, a 63-year-old tailor at the aforementioned address in Belle West.
The woman would visit her husband daily at his tailor shop located in Georgetown, to assist him with work and on completion she would return home leaving him at the shop.

From time to time, he would stay overnight depending on the volume of work. On Friday, January 24, at about 10:00 hrs, Parbhudai left home and proceeded to her husband’s tailor shop where she assisted him for the day. Thereafter, she left for her home.

Before arriving home, the woman stopped at a shop in the area where she purchased several grocery items and was escorted home by the shop owner/friend.

As the woman arrived home, the shop owner watched as she entered the yard and he then drove away. It is suspected that the perpetrator(s) were hiding in the yard and managed to capture the woman as she was about to enter her home since there was no sign of forced entry.

Whilst in the home, they restrained her with the use of ‘plastic cable zip ties’ and dealt the woman several blows to her face and about her body. The suspect(s) then ransacked the dwelling house as her purse was found to be missing along with her jewellery and US$4,000 from a closet.

The woman’s body was later examined by police ranks and was subsequently escorted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where she was pronounced dead. The body was later escorted to the Ezekiel Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem examination. Detectives visited the scene at around 10:30 hrs on Saturday and several persons were questioned in the area with some useful information received. Two persons were arrested and are assisting with investigations.