The partly nude body of a woman was yesterday afternoon discovered in a decomposing state in her Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo home and it is believed that she was raped and murdered about a week ago when villagers last saw her.
The mentally challenged daughter of the woman, who has so far been identified only as Indira, was in the house with the corpse when the discovery was made. There are suspicions that the daughter witnessed the incident but because of her state was unable to raise an alarm or relate what had happened.
Stabroek News was informed that the mother and daughter would usually walk around the village begging for food. After villagers missed them for about a week, someone decided to visit the house around 5 pm and on looking inside saw the woman’s decomposing body. When she was found, the woman was only wearing a top this newspaper was told.
The mother and daughter resided in a run-down house surrounded on three sides by bushes in Post Office Street.
Residents told this newspaper that the dead woman who was in her forties did odd jobs around the community.
The body is at the Ezekiel Thomas Funeral Parlour awaiting a post mortem examination.
