An elderly woman was found dead with her throat slit in her ransacked home on Tuesday evening, shocking neighbours in the Vryheid’s Lust North community, on the East Coast of Demerara.
The semi-nude body of 68-year-old Sukhdai Ramkilaum, called ‘Mama Rose’ and ‘Rosaline,’ was discovered in a pool of blood in her bedroom, at her Lot 80 Vryheid’s Lust North residence. Ramkilaum, who lived alone, was last seen alive around noon on Monday by a neighbour who visited her. It is suspected that the attacker/s knew the elderly woman, since none of her neighbours recalled hearing anything suspicious.
Her relatives, who noted that Ramkilaum kept gold jewellery in her home, could not say if anything was missing. Her nephew Bisram Balram, who lives