…police hunting four suspects

AN Albouystown businesswoman was robbed and strangled to death in the wee hours of Thursday morning while her husband was tied up to a chair with duct tape to his mouth and beaten.

Dead is 56-year-old Nalinie Persaud called “Nalo” of 161 James Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. Reports indicate that the businesswoman was attacked about 03:00hrs Thursday and, during the course of the robbery at her residence by four masked bandits, was killed.

Police said two of bandits, armed with handguns, had attacked the woman and when they escaped, the businesswoman’s lifeless body was discovered with a rope, which was used to strangle her, tied around the neck. Police confirmed that cash and jewellery were carted off by the bandits who ransacked the premises. They gained entry by ripping out a board from the northern wall of the lower flat of the house. The victim’s husband was assaulted and taken out of the bedroom into the lower flat of the premises, which housed a grocery shop, where he was bound to a chair and duct-taped.
The woman’s body was taken to the Lyken Funeral Parlour, awaiting an autopsy as police continue their investigations. No arrest has yet been made.

“Me and she would talk every day, why did they kill her, why. When people from around here dead we in Albouystown does live with so much of love, everybody does attend the funeral; we does live with love. I am going to miss Nalo, a big rope on her neck she left with, and she came into the world with nothing but love,” one resident said.

Others noted that the businesswoman worked for decades to reach where she is as a respectable woman in the community. The woman’s son was in shock and unable to speak. He lived in the same yard but in a separate house. His wife, Candacy Rowe, said: “I hear somebody knocking at the house and when I get up, somebody was calling for my husband and when I ask is who, they say is emergency, so when I come out I see the shop opened and she husband tie up.”

Upon checking for her mother-in-law, she discovered her motionless body on the bed in the upper flat.

Rowe noted that they did not hear any strange sounds to indicate that something was amiss. Residents in the community were shocked upon hearing of the businesswoman’s death, noting that she was very kind to everyone.