Fifteen
years of domestic abuse
came to a tragic end
yesterday morning for a
young couple of Parfait
Harmonie, West Bank
Demerara.
The
usually quiet
neighbourhood was rocked
by news of a murder
suicide.
Just
around 11:00 hours,
neighbours found the
bodies of 30-year-old
Kathlene Mo-A-Lin, and her
husband Alfred Etwaroo, in
their home at Parfait
Harmonie. They had been
altered by the couple’s
three children.
The
woman was found lying in a
pool of blood in the
couple’s living room
while her husband’s body
was found hanging from a
rafter.
A
bottle containing a
poisonous substance was
discovered in the
couple’s living room.
The
woman’s relative said
that when they discovered
the bodies, the woman’s
lips were sealed with what
appeared to be PVC pipe
paste.
Relatives
suggested that the man
used the paste to keep his
wife’s mouth close so as
to prevent her from
screaming and alerting
neighbours.
“He
had to use de paste to
close she mouth because
she wudda never drink that
poison willingly.”
A
source close to the
investigation said that
from all indications the
man held his wife down,
force fed her the poison
and then glued up her
mouth shut.
The
source further told this
newspaper that the man
also appeared to have
ingested the poisonous
substance before hanging
himself.
“We
believe that after he
(husband) see like the
poison aint working he
hang himself with bed
sheet”.
The
woman’s relatives told
this newspaper that
Mo-A-Lin endured years of
abuse from her husband. A
sister of the dead woman
said ‘that as recently
as last week the man told
a relative that he was
going to kill his wife,
himself and their three
children.
Another
relative said that this
was not the first time
that Etwaroo had
threatened to kill his
wife. She said that on
several occasions they
also had to prevent the
man from hanging himself.
“Is
nuff time we had to cut he
down from rope because he
trying to kill he self,”
the relative said.
Yesterday,
as relatives converged at
the couple’s residence
there was not a dry eye.
The woman’s three
sisters cried hysterically
when undertakers removed
their sister’s body and
that of her husband.
One
sister was heard saying,
“Oh Alfred, you didn’t
have to kill her if you
and she couldn’t agree
with certain things.
Y’all should have
separated.”
Another
relative said she thought
that the couple was doing
fine since they were
building their dream home
in Parfait Harmonie.
Relatives
are now contemplating
their next move to
complete the house.
The woman leaves to
mourn her three children
and countless relatives.
