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Another woman brutally murdered
Even in the midst of a massive femininity campaign, yet another Guyanese woman was brutally murdered by her spouse.
Seema Singh, 30, succumbed at the Georgetown Hospital around midday yesterday, hours after she was stabbed a reported nine times by her reputed husband, in the village of Helena Number One, Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara.
The man, who is a habitual resident of the Camp Street Prison, was arrested by an alert police rank shortly after the incident.
Kaieteur News understands that the stabbing stems from a visit the woman made to her two children a few days ago, which angered her reputed husband, Rupert Brown, called “Bird Man”.
According to reports from the suspect’s relatives, who live a stone’s throw away from where the couple had been residing together in Helena, Mahaica for the past few months, Seema Singh, who hails from Essequibo, went away last week for a few days to visit her children.
She was supposed to return on a certain day and when that did not happen her reputed husband became angry.
One of his relatives told this newspaper that on Saturday, the man went in search of Singh and eventually confronted her in the city where he physically abused her in public.
Fearing for her safety, although she returned to Mahaica, Singh sought refuge at her reputed husband’s relatives’ home and this reportedly angered him even more.
“This morning (Sunday) he go for her and demanded that she come home. But the way he did it scared her and she had to ask him if is so he want she to come back home,” one relative told Kaieteur News.
The relative said that Brown became enraged and grabbed Singh and began stabbing her.
He only ceased when the woman stopped screaming and was lying gasping for breath on the ground.
It was some while after the enraged man had left the scene, that relatives went to Singh’s assistance and rushed her initially to the Mahaicony Hospital.
But her condition was so severe that Singh was transferred to Georgetown where she eventually succumbed.
Meanwhile, news of the incident was relayed to the ranks at the Mahaica Police Station, and according to reports, the lone rank on duty there immediately went into action.
Thinking quickly and realising that the suspect might make good his escape, the rank left the station and promptly confronted Brown as he was leaving his yard.
The cop ordered him at gunpoint to lie face down and using his shoe laces, the cop secured the suspect and took him to the station.
Kaieteur News understands that the suspect told police that he was about to turn himself in when he was apprehended.
The death of the mother of two shocked Essequibians, especially residents of Richmond Village.
Her grieving mother Maya Persaud, upon learning of her eldest daughter’s demise was observed being comforted by her friends and neighbours when this newspaper visited her home yesterday.
She recalled seeing the eldest of her three daughters on Tuesday last.
According to Persaud, Singh, who left the Essequibo Coast in January last, had returned to the ‘Cinderella County’ last week to transact business which is related to her two children.
“She came home to uplift her two children ‘child support’.”
According to Mrs. Persaud, the family was of the impression that h
Seema Singh
er daughter was living with a female friend in Berbice, since Singh told her that she was going to neighbouring Suriname to work.
“We did not even know that she was in a relationship,” one relative told Kaieteur News.
Mrs. Persaud explained that around 07:30 on Sunday morning, she received a call from Singh’s friend alerting her that her daughter was in the Georgetown Public Hospital, having been stabbed several times in her abdomen.
The woman said that a few moments later she received another call from the friend who further told her Singh was bleeding profusely and she had to undergo an emergency surgery.
Prior to her leaving Essequibo, Seema Singh was living in a common-Law relationship with Wallie Reid of Richmond Village.
The couple has two young children, age 11 and nine-years-old.
Earlier this year the couple separated due to a turbulent relationship.
Mrs. Persaud said her daughter finally walked away from the troubled relationship, after her reputed husband sold his property.
Seema Singh leaves to mourn her two children, her mother, Maya and two other siblings who reside overseas.
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