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A post-mortem examination on the remains of the East Ruimveldt hairdresser reveal-ed that she was stabbed 13 times about the body and the cause of death was given as haemorrhage.
This newspaper understands that a stab to the neck severed the jugular vein.
The examination was performed at the Georgetown Hospital mortuary by government pathologist Nehaul Singh and was witnessed by her relatives.
Shenese Richardson-Austin, 25, of Lot 502 West Ruimveldt was stabbed multiple times when she was confronted by three of four gunmen who invaded her home. She was also beaten. Richardson-Austin died at the Georgetown Hospital less than two hours later.
At the time of the incident the woman, her sister Rayana Haynes and their mother Jean Ann Richardson were home. Richardson-Austin had just returned home and was eating in her room when the men barged in.
Relatives had said that while the men escaped with gold jewellery and an undisclosed amount of cash, they were convinced that the gunmen were sent to kill Richardson-Austin, judging from the way they operated.
Haynes had recalled that around 11 pm a man called at the house for cigarettes saying that he was paying with $500. Seconds after handing him the requested item, she turned to make change and it was at this point that the man forced his way into the house and signalled to three masked gunmen nearby to come inside.
According to Haynes, she was forced into a room where her mother lay asleep while the others headed to a back room, after one of them grabbed a knife from a kitchen drawer. The woman had insisted that a stranger would not know where they kept their knives.
While in the back room, the men stabbed Richardson-Austin multiple times, beating her in the process before fleeing. They spent at least 15 minutes in the house. The woman who was found lying in a pool of blood was rushed to the hospital.
Relatives had recounted years of abuse the woman suffered at the hands of her husband of three years. She relocated to her mother’s residence four months ago and it was from there that she operated her hairdressing business.
According to relatives, the man made threats, kidnapped her and would publicly hit and confront her.
The man was arrested when he turned up at the hospital, after she had died.