By
Stabroek
staff |
Tuesday,
January 26, 2010
The
body of a 43-year-old mother of
three was discovered at her home
at Line Path, Skeldon, Corentyne,
Berbice around 10 am yesterday
with chop and stab wounds and a
close relative is in police
custody assisting with
investigations.
Nalini ‘Nalo’ Bhoge who
was reportedly at home alone at
the time of the murder was found
lying in a pool of blood with
chops to the back of her head
and neck and at the sides of her
neck as well as four stab wounds
in her upper back.
Police found a bloodstained
cutlass and an ice pick,
suspected to be the murder
weapons, at the scene. A police
press release said the woman’s
body was found at her home with
several chop and stab wounds.
The woman’s husband,
Budhnarine ‘Minko’ Bhoge,
51, told Stabroek News that he
had left home to drop his two
youngest daughters, Khishana, 10
and Pravena, 8, to school. He
said he then went to the bank
and then to a gas station at
Corriverton before returning
home.
He said he met two of his
colleagues at the gas station
and they chatted and then he
gave one of them a lift to the
store and dropped the other one
home.
He related that he went into
the house through the front
veranda door, which was open and
although he did not see his wife
he did not call out to her as he
felt she was doing her usual
chores.
A few minutes later, he said,
he called for her but got no
response and decided to search
the house. It was then that he
made the gruesome discovery.
He said when he saw his
wife’s remains on the floor in
his eldest daughter’s bedroom
he was “devastated.”
He said he immediately
alerted a man who was passing as
well as relatives, neighbours
and the police and within
minutes many persons rushed to
the scene.
Bhoge, a cane farmer and a
member of the Private Cane
Farmers’ Association, who
operates an office below his
home, said his wife was active
in his business.
When Stabroek News arrived at
the scene, a large crowd of
relatives, friends and curious
onlookers had gathered while
vehicles lined both sides of the
road.
The
grieving Tillakdhari (seated,
left) next to her
granddaughter Bharti and other
relatives.
The police were also there
conducting investigations as
undertakers from Persaud’s
Funeral Home removed the body
amid loud wailing from Nalini
Bhoge’s 69-year-old mother
Vedawattie Tillakdhari.
Tillakdhari said her
son-in-law Bhoge had called her
around 10 am and asked for her
son, ‘Vicky.’ She enquired
what was wrong and he said that
they must “come right now;
something serious happen.”
She said she thought her
daughter was sick and did not
expect to see her dead,
especially not in that manner.
In tears the woman lamented that
someone had murdered her
daughter cold-bloodedly.
Nalini’s brother,
Ravindranauth ‘Vicky’
Bisnauth, 39, told this
newspaper they hurried to the
house and his brother-in-law
told them that someone had
killed “Nalo”. He said when
he saw her blood-covered body he
was shocked.
According to the dead
woman’s eldest daughter,
Bharti, she left home around
8.30 am to walk to the Line Path
Secondary School a short
distance away, while her father
had left earlier to drop her two
younger sisters at the primary
school.
She said some of her friends
told her they saw a lot of
vehicles in front of her home
and they heard someone had
“cut up my mother”. She said
she borrowed her teacher’s
phone and called home and was
told to go home immediately.
She said she went to the head
teacher’s office to ask for
permission to go home and found
relatives already there waiting
for her.
Meanwhile, Tillakdhari
recalled that three weeks ago
her daughter and her family had
gone to a fair in the area and
when they returned home their
entire house was ransacked and a
large sum of money was stolen.
A quantity of jewellery
remained intact, but a pouch
belonging to Bhoge that
contained cash, “bank card and
security card” was missing.
