(Trinidad Express) Nyla Khan, mother of a two-year-old boy, was tied up and tortured inside her home before she was chopped twice on the neck, relatives said on Monday. A Guyanese man is being sought in the case.
The 24-year-old merchandiser had been in an abusive relationship for almost three years and wanted to get out. She had gone to the police for help, but got none.
’And when things got really bad she would send her son by her sister. That is how he was saved from a gruesome death. His mother dropped him out by our sister’s house to spend the day and then she left him overnight,’ her brother Ganesh Khan said. Khan said his sister was last seen on Saturday afternoon.
’She dropped her son at our sister’s house and then went to Princes Town to shop for Christmas presents. That was the last place she was seen. Her son usually stayed nights by his aunt so no one found it suspicious. The next morning my mother was calling her and didn’t get through,’ he said.
Khan said his mother, Nazimoon Khan, and nephew Aleem Mohammed, seven, went to her home in Rio Claro but no one answered.
’The door to the front room was open, but the porch was locked. My mother pushed my nephew through the porch and he went inside. He saw her in a pool of blood and came back and told my mom who called the police,’ he said.
The body was found around 11 a.m. on Sunday. Her hands and mouth were bound with duct tape, police said. Her head was almost severed and a bloodied axe was found near the body.
Nyla Khan and her Guyanese husband, Ronald Gobin, would have celebrated their third wedding anniversary on Boxing Day.
The couple’s son sat in the porch yesterday and waited for his mother. She had promised to return with a bag of Christmas decorations and toys.
’He would continue to stay with his aunt until we figure out what is going on,’ Khan said.
Police were searching last evening for a 36-year-old mason.