Natasha Jacobs, the woman who was murdered and dumped in the ‘Blacka’ canal near ‘B’ Field, Sophia, died as a result of trauma to her head and drowning, her brother said.
The post-mortem examination was performed on Friday at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Jacobs, 35, a mother of four children, was found floating in the canal early Monday morning, a day after she went missing. According to residents in the area, a section of the canal was blocked off so that if a body was dumped in it, it would float up.
According to her brother, the PME revealed blunt trauma to her head, lacerations to other parts of her body and also that she had drowned.
Jacobs’ body was fished out of the canal by her brothers. Minutes after they found her body, her brothers and some residents from the field went to her boyfriend’s abode. It was reported that the man, a suspect in Jacobs’s murder, was given a thrashing before being arrested by police. His little shack was pulled down.
Jacobs had been involved in a turbulent two-year relationship with the man. Relatives said she was beaten many times by him. Her brother Seon Jacobs recalled one time when she went home with a chop mark on her left arm. He said he had warned her to get out of the abusive relationship and stay with her family but she never did.
“Tasha had everything here. I don’t know what she was doing with that man,” the distraught man told Stabroek News.
Her sister, Nadine Jacobs, stated that the man would usually take advantage of her younger sister and beat her. She said her sister had suffered a nervous breakdown a few years ago and was placed on medication.
Since then she said Jacobs was living her and her mother. She stated that the four children would stay with another sister in South Ruimveldt and would visit often.
