A MOTHER of two had her neck almost severed, allegedly by her reputed husband, two weeks after she had terminated their relationship, for a younger man.

The suspected killer, Narindra Tackoor called ‘Dado’, a 42-year-old fisherman, was taken into police custody after doctors at New Amsterdam Hospital confirmed that he did not drink any poisonous substance.
Police, in a statement on the incident, said investigations revealed that twenty-eight-year-old Bhanmattie Devi Bacchus went to the home of a man, with whom she had recently severed a common-law relationship, in an attempt at reconciling following his approach to her.
“During this an argument ensued and the man attacked her with a cutlass, inflicting chops to her neck and other parts of the body,” the police stated, adding that she was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Relatives of the dead woman said Bacchus was lured, by her estranged paramour and a friend, to his Patrick Dam home, at Mount Sinai, shortly after 08:00 hrs yesterday morning.
On January 2 last, after living with Tackoor for seven years and bearing him two children, Bacchus also known as Patricia, left his home and their offsprings behind and commenced living with another man at Number Two Village, East Canje.
Her mother, Bhoospatie Rampersaud, of Number 19 Village, Corentyne, told the Guyana Chronicle that she was preparing to go to Upper Corentyne when she got a telephone call from her now deceased daughter asking her to come.
“She called me two times afterwards. I told her I was coming. On the last occasion, at 08:58hrs, my daughter telephoned me for the last time. She said ‘Mammy come for me’,” the distraught woman related.

THIN STRING
“A few seconds later, I got another call. It was my sister-in-law, Verone, who lived next door. She told me, my daughter got chop. When I got there, my daughter was lying in the concrete yard. I saw her neck almost severed. It was held by a thin string. She was dead,” the mother said.
The woman said she, subsequently, enquired about her two grandchildren and was told that the five-year-old had gone to school at St. Therese Primary while the three-year-old was next door at her sister-in-law.
Rampersaud, who has mothered four adult daughters, recalled that, repeatedly, her second daughter and her husband would have fights and she was forced to intervene.
However, she remembered that, while visiting on one of those occasions, she said to her daughter: “One day when you two fight, I would not be there to save you and he will kill you right here.”
The fifty-year-old women regretted that those words have since been fulfilled.
Nevertheless, whilst reminiscing about their last conversation on Friday, Rampersaud said her daughter wanted to go to Suriname and she had sent to call her previously but was told that the suspect and his boss had gone and collected her.
The aggrieved parent said she did not think that anything was amiss as she never anticipated that her daughter would have met such an end.
She moaned: “If he did not want her, he should not have done that. He should have allowed her to live.”
Meanwhile, the nephew of the detained man, alias ‘Plantain’, said he had seen when his uncle returned home with Bacchus.

THEIR DIFFERENCES
“I was next door when they came. I knew she had left him and I thought that they were mending their differences. I then went to my aunt’s home about a hundred feet away. I then heard a scream. I looked and I saw Patricia on the verandah. I saw blood. She jumped from the verandah. I ran over to help her. But Dado fired a few chops in my direction and I backed off. He chopped at her neck. When she was lifeless, he walked away into the bushes with the cutlass and a bottle. I don’t know if it was poison,” the man said.
Following the gruesome act, police launched a manhunt for the killer in the western savannah of Vryheid Village, where he was seen dressed only in his brief and armed with a cutlass at 11:02 hrs.
He attempted to flee from Sergeant Newland and recent graduates of the Felix Austin Police College but was captured and after he claimed he had ingested a poisonous liquid, he was transported to New Amsterdam Hospital from where a doctor discharged him twenty minutes later after verifying that he had not drunk any poison.
He was then taken to Central Police Station where he is being detained.