Police in E & F division at Linden are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 57-year-old woman.
Lakha Latchmi Abrams, aka ‘Pinkie’, was found dead in her bed at her Speightland (Lower Kara Kara) home. According to relatives of the woman at the time of her death she was at home with her 27-year-old nephew Dexter Mosley.
According to a neighbour, his father-in-law was awakened sometime between 3:30 and 4:30 am yesterday morning by a phone call from the woman’s nephew who informed him that there was a man in the house with a cutlass. The father-in-law immediately summoned the police and he was advised not to go outside.
Peering from his window the neighbour said that there were two persons in the yard but he could not identify them.
It later turned out to be the nephew and a tenant who lived downstairs. The father-in-law of the neighbour said that the nephew Mosley told him that he was up watching cricket on TV when he noticed a man carrying a cutlass in the house.
“He said that he raised an alarm but neighbours were too afraid to come out.” Continuing, he related that the tenant in the lower flat came out at around 6:30 am and they decided to go and check on ‘Pinky’.
It was at that time they discovered that she was dead. Then the neighbour summoned the police for the second time before they responded by turning up at the location.
According to one of the woman’s sisters, Linda Fiedtkou, just before 7 am yesterday morning she was in the process of preparing her children for school when she got news that her sister had died.
Fiedtkou said that after going to the scene, she saw her sister’s body lying on her bed with froth at her nose but she didn’t observe any marks of violence.
However, word quickly spread through the community that the woman had been murdered. According to neighbours and the woman’s relatives ‘Pinky’ was epileptic and was suffering from a number of medical complications.
The woman’s nephew was taken into custody to assist police in the investigations. (Cathy Wilson)
