A Corentyne family is now mourning the loss of their mother after she was found brutally murdered yesterday morning in the Corentyne backlands.
Dead is Ninawattee Nandalall, also known as `Sharda’, 52, a mother of three, of Lot 43 No. 0 Village, Corentyne.
Police yesterday said that the incident occurred between April 11 at about 12:30 hrs and April 12, 2024 at about 07:40 hours at No. 0 backdam, Coretyne, Berbice.
Three persons have since been held for questioning. According to a police source, the three persons are from the victim’s village.
According to Nandalall’s daughter, her mother left home just around 11 am on Thursday to head to the backlands area located through their street to pick mangoes. She said, the woman would make achar, coconut oil and other items to sell.
On Thursday evening the family became worried after the woman did not return home. “My brother and cousin them start search all over but them na find her”, the young woman said.
The family on Friday then continued the search where they eventually discovered her battered body along a dam leading to the backlands.
The woman’s nephew, Gunraj Veersammy, 27, who was a part of the search team yesterday said that they found the woman’s body with a slit on her throat and forehead.
“She hand and so get mark so like she fight back.”
According to the family, when the woman was discovered, her pants were found some distance away and her shirt was pulled all the way to her neck.
The family and neighbours described the woman as hardworking. Her daughter noted that the woman had been a single parent for over 19 years. “She work and mind us all our life and take care of us”, the emotional daughter relayed.
Nandlalall would also catch shrimp and fish and sell to take care of her family over the years. “She does walk and anything she find or catch she would make thing and sell to make sure she mine she children”, one neighbour said.
