However, pathologist Dr Vivikanand Brijmohan told Stabroek News yesterday that he was not ruling out homicide. He said the cause of death was not known because of the decomposing state of the body.
Rohoman’s head was partly shaven and her long hair had been used to tie her feet together. A canvas sling that was tied around her waist was also used to bind her hands and feet together.
There was a chop to her chin and burns on her back, hand and other parts of her body. One of her eyes was also bulging out.
Rohoman, who was a weeder at the Rose Hall Estate, left home around 9 am on Sunday to visit her reputed husband from whom she had separated some three months ago. When she did not return home, she was said to be missing and a search had been launched for her.
Her brother, Assim Rohoman had told Stabroek News that on Monday evening persons who were coming out of the Canje Creek told him that they spotted a body floating in the water. He said they informed the police and officers accompanied them on a search early Tuesday morning.
The woman left home wearing a pair of black pants and a black top and when her body was fished out of the canal it was clad in a pair of short brown tights and the black top.
Her brother said prior to the separation Jairool had been living at her husband’s home at Gangaram with their 16-year-old son Kevin Shivkumar and another son from a previous marriage, Ifram Rohoman, 19.
She had been living with the man for 17 years and moved out of his house three months ago with her sons after a misunderstanding. However, she would normally visit the man, a watchman at the Rose Hall estate, to assist him with cooking and other household chores.
