By Zoisa Fraser
The lifeless body of a 24-year-old Supply, East Bank Demerara woman was yesterday morning discovered under a bed in her home with her hands tied and a vest around her neck. Her husband later turned up at a police station in Berbice, where he confessed to killing her.
Dead is Fiona Fraser-McPherson of Lot 12 Supply.
A press release from the police yesterday said they were investigating the suspected murder of McPherson “whose body was found at about 08:00 hours today under a bed in her home with her hands tied behind her back and a vest tied around her neck”.
The release added that she was reportedly last seen alive around noon on Sunday. It further stated that the dead woman’s husband, who is the suspect in the murder, reported to the police at Reliance Police Station, Berbice, around 12:15 pm yesterday.
He is in police custody assisting with investigations.
It was reported to this newspaper that the couple, who had been married for four years, quarrelled frequently as the woman’s husband had repeatedly accused her of cheating on him. He had threatened to kill her on several occasions, Stabroek News was told.
Fraser-McPherson was scheduled to travel to Barbados where she had managed to secure a job, a move that apparently did not please him.
According to Fraser-McPherson’s uncle, Monty Fraser, who would stay at the home periodically, he and his reputed wife were at the house on Sunday morning, but they had left his niece and her husband at home and gone out some time between 11:30 am and noon.
He said when he returned around 2 pm, the padlock was on the door, indicating that the two were not at home and he went inside and took a nap.
The man said he went out around 6.30 pm and returned later that night, but his niece had still not returned home and she was still not there the following morning when he awoke.
According to Fraser, while his niece would go out she never slept out of her home and he found her continued absence a bit strange.
He said he started to complain about the condition the house was in and by this time his reputed wife, Wendy had ventured into the kitchen area.
She was on her way back to the front of the house, he said, when she went and told him that she had just seen what looked like a foot under the bed in his niece’s bedroom, through a crack in the door. According to Fraser, they called out several times for her but got response and began to fear the worse.
They then made contact with several relatives and gathered enough courage to go into the bedroom. It was then that they found Fraser McPherson dead under the bed; her hands and chest were “black and blue,” Fraser said. He added that parts of her were covered with sheets.
Shock still evident in his voice the man said, “I can’t believe that I sleep whole night in this house with me niece dead.”
Another uncle, David Fraser, told this newspaper that the couple had lived at Berbice for some time after they were married before moving to Supply. He too was shocked at his niece’s tragic death and added that at no time did the woman’s husband inform anybody that he was travelling to Berbice.
Going to Barbados
According to David Fraser, his niece was scheduled to travel to Barbados on Friday to work. He said her husband was not at all happy with that.
“All she suitcase din dun pack. She ticket dun buy and she passport in order. Everything was set for she to travel,” he said adding that his niece’s husband had told her that a man had sent the ticket for her.
“She was a nice and quiet girl man. She didn’t like to go and party… He just use to like bully she and so on,” David said.
According him, the husband was so jealous, that everywhere his niece went he would follow.
After committing the act, the man fled to his home community of Adelphi, Canje where he told relatives what he had done. Information reaching Stabroek News is that he arrived there some time yesterday morning. The man reportedly said that he had killed his wife because he knew that she was unfaithful to him and that he committed the act in a fit of rage.
This newspaper understands too that the relatives advised him to go to the police station and give himself up.
