-sustained 13 wounds
A 38-year-old mother of four was brutally slashed to death by her reputed husband during a heated argument at their Lot 79 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop home last evening. Up to press time the suspect, a 28-year-old security guard was still on the run.
Dead is Pamela Beverly Mangru who was killed two days before she would have celebrated her 39th birth anniversary.
Police held the suspect’s brother, shortly after the gruesome discovery was made.
According to the information reaching Stabroek News the woman’s throat was slit and she was stabbed some thirteen times before the man made a quiet exit from the home. The incident occurred around 8 pm.
However the woman’s screams were followed by sudden silence, the relative said adding that shortly after the man was seen locking the door to the home and the gate before quietly walking out of the area.
The landlord, who lived in the upper flat became suspicious and made several failed attempts to contact relatives to come to the house and check on Mangru to ensure she was alright.
The man, the shock still evident in his voice, related that relatives were eventually contacted but by the time they arrived, the police were already in the house.
The man said that police were called and when they kicked down the door they found a bloodied Mangru. She was already dead.
The police, he said, told him that she was stabbed some 13 times about the body.
According to him, the couple had their “ups and downs” and that was probably why the neighbours did not intervene.
The woman leaves behind, four children, the eldest is 21 and the youngest is 11.
Mangru’s brutal demise follows on the heels of a spate of domestic violence against women. On March 12, Savitri Arjune, a mother of two, was stabbed to death by her former reputed husband moments after she had left her Herstelling, East Bank Demerara home.
At the time of the incident, the woman who had endured years of abuse and threats from the man, was making her way to the public road to catch transportation to the city where she worked.
Up to now, the police have failed to apprehend the man and no bulletin has been issued for him. Then during the wee hours of February 15, Deborah Allen was chopped to death by her reputed husband in their Oronoque, Port Kaituma home following an argument over a party.
After inflicting the blows on the woman, the man turned his weapon on her 16-year-old daughter, chopping her across the face. The man subsequently turned himself over to the police.
Hours later the bloodied bodies of Nekecia Rouse and her sister-in-law, Alexis ‘Keisha’ George were discovered in Smythfield, New Amsterdam. They had been stabbed to death. Rouse was the mother of a four-year-old daughter while George had a one-year-old girl.
Both girls were in the house when the gruesome discoveries were made. Several suspects were subsequently held but released. Police investigations are still ongoing in this case.
On February 8, less than a day after she was allegedly stabbed by her husband following an argument, Latoya Conway Woolford, a mother of three succumbed to her injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The husband fled after the incident and attempted to commit suicide. He spent several days in hospital before being taken to court charged with the capital offence.