The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Deonarine Sawh, 65, in relation to the murder of Nazaleen Mohamed of Belfield on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).
According to the bulletin, Sawh is also known as `Boyzie’ and his last known addresses are Hope Estate, ECD and Crabwood Creek, Corentyne.
Anyone with information on Sawh is asked to contact the police.
Mohammed was brutally murdered on Monday and her family is still trying to come to grips with their loss.
According to police report, the woman had left her Belfield squatting area, ECD home at about 7 am to visit her brother at Lowlands, ECD, but was later discovered dead in a canal with stab wounds about her body.
The victim’s nephew, Mohamed, in an interview yesterday with Stabroek News, said that his aunt had left home to visit her brother at approximately 7 am on Monday.
Mohammed said that Nazaleen’s daughter had been unwell and before she left home she told her two neighbours, considered family friends, that she was going to visit her brother and to watch over her daughter. “She tell the person to take care of the daughter because she was going by her brother. After she would have left around seven o’clock and hours passed he decide to ring her phone. Prior to that her son receive a phone call from her and a well-known voice was on the call and ask he if he know who he talking to and the son answered and said ‘yes’. In the background he hear he mother say, ‘come leh meh talk to meh son, give meh meh phone’ and the phone cut off.”
A few minutes after 3 pm, one of the neighbours who was asked to watch over the daughter decided to go to where Nazaleen’s brother lived.
“So like after three, the guy who did watching over for she decide to head to where her brother is living and somebody was grazing cow so he walk down the dam the line top side, then is when the person that was grazing the cow seh `boy look somebody deh down in the trench’. The neighbour recognized her by the top she had on. He run and go to her brother residence but the brother was not at home. Neighbours make contact with her brother and them come and find her floating in the trench with multiple chop wounds”, Nazaleen’s nephew said.
Nazaleen was the mother of four children. She had ended her relationship with her ex-lover – the man who is now being sought – early last year.
In a statement on Tuesday, the police had said that inquiries disclosed that the woman was living with her daughter and reputed husband, who was at sea on a fishing boat at the time.
The statement added that at about 8:05 am, the victim’s 32-year-old son received a call from his mother’s cell phone, and heard a male voice whom he identified as the suspect, who had previously shared a relationship with his mother.
At the time, he also heard his mother shouting for her phone. Shortly after, the call ended.
