A woman was found dead in a drainage canal near a koker at Grove, East Bank Demerara on Monday, just over 12 hours after she left her home.
Dead is Indira Veerasammy, 44, a mother of seven of 154 Back Street, Grove.
Her son, Rajesh Ramlogan, said that it was two police ranks who notified him that his mother’s body was found. He said that when he arrived at the koker, he saw his mother lying face down in shallow water. She was dressed in the clothes he had seen her wearing when she left her home the previous day.
Ramlogan said that on Sunday at about 7pm, Veerasammy was about to leave their home when he questioned her about where she was going.
“She had on her brown jacket and she green skirt, preparing to go out and I asked her where she was going.
She said, ‘don’t mind her business’”, he recounted.
He explained that his mother would regularly go out early in the afternoon to a bar in Diamond and return home around 9 pm, sometimes in a drunken state. When asked if he was worried about her when she did not return home on Sunday night, Ramlogan said, “Well, if it’s a case she can’t make it home, she would go to my sister in Diamond and stay until the next day. I thought she was there.”
At Koker Road, Grove yesterday, Stabroek News was told that it is believed that Veerasammy may have fallen into the water, which is about 15 feet deep.
But Ramlogan said that it was unusual for Veerasammy to walk in the vicinity of the koker, which is situated about two corners after her home.
“Where the koker is has no walkway (street) to where we live; she used to drink heavy alcohol but she never walk there,” Ramlogan said.
The police have since launched an investigation into her death.
