A 21-year-old woman was last night murdered by her former reputed husband who was later found hanging from a mango tree at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo.
Dead is Salima Mohammed
who was stabbed several times in her head and neck by Amrit Mohanram, called `Samir’ , 21,l in the bedroom of her Zeelugt, West Bank Demerara home. Mohammed would have been 21 on January 9.
Commander of ‘D’ Division Balram Persaud told Stabroek News this morning that the couple once lived together but were separated and the man was begging the woman for them to be reunited but she refused. At around 8:30 last night the woman was in her bathroom in the yard when the man slipped into her house and waited for her in the bedroom. Persaud said as she entered the room the man attacked her and stabbed her several times before escaping, leaving his cellular phone and the bloody knife he used in his wake.
Mohanram was later found hanging from a mango tree at around 11:30 last night in his Tuschen, yard.
The couple had no children and Mohammed lived alone but there is another house in the yard occupied by her grandmother and other relatives.
According to the woman’s grandmother, Shirley, who lives in the front house, she was sitting in her veranda when she heard her granddaughter scream “Nanee! Nanee!”
The woman said she rushed to the house and when she entered she observed Amrit jumping through the back door. Upon entering the bedroom the woman was greeted with the bloody sight of her granddaughter lying on her stomach on the bed with several stab wounds to the back of her neck. The woman was alive but could not speak and the man’s cell phone and the bloody knife were also on the bed.
Shirley said she picked up the knife and placed it on the railing of the veranda and screamed for help.
“Me run out side and holler for people cause me couldn’t do anything,” the woman told Stabroek News.
The woman said her granddaughter appeared to have suffered about five stab wounds and it is believed the man pushed her face into the mattress and repeatedly stabbed her.
Salima was taken to the Leonora Diagnostic Hospital by Shirley and her mother, Indira, but she died before they arrived.
According to her relatives the couple was married about two years ago and they lived at the man’s Tuschen home up to August 1 last year. On that day the husband left for Trinidad where he worked as a carpenter and only returned last week Thursday. The family said since he came back “he only quarrelling with she.” Salima did not return to the home.
Meanwhile, over at Tuschen the man’s grandmother and his aunt told Stabroek News that he left early last evening and said he was going out but did not say where he was going. The next thing they heard about him was when police barged into their home with guns and enquired about him. They told the officers they did not know his whereabouts but a search by the officers discovered him dead, hanging from the mango tree in the yard.
The man’s neighbours said since he returned from Trinidad he visited the Masjid every evening. Last weekend one of the neighbours asked him when his wife was returning to the home and he told them “next week.”
Salima had been teaching at the Islamic school in Meten-Meer-Zorg for the past two years.
