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Post Mortem on woman’s body suggests poison

Jun 29, 2010 News

– body parts sent for further testing

FERRY STREET, NEW AMSTERDAM – Forty-nine-year old Keith Simon was released yesterday from police custody. The man was detained on Sunday evening, hours after his reputed wife, Pauline David, of Ferry Street, New Amsterdam was declared dead at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Dr. Nehaul Singh performed the autopsy on the remains of the 40-year old woman at the New Amsterdam Hospital yesterday.
According to information from Division ‘B’ of the Guyana Police Force, it appears as though the woman ingested some sort of poison or may have taken an overdose of something that caused her demise.
There were no broken bones but body samples have been taken for further testing.
At this stage the police say that they cannot treat her death as a homicide but that investigations are continuing.
The R.K. National Security Network security guard was pronounced dead just after 16:00 hours on Sunday at the New Amsterdam Hospital where she was taken after complaining of feeling unwell.
The woman’s reputed husband, who is said to be a deportee, was taken into police custody Sunday evening.
On Sunday, the couple’s second child, 17-year old Elizabeth Simon, had said her mother began complaining for lower abdominal pains since Friday and was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
“They give she saline and three sets of tablets. Then she start to feel worse and she get weak and drowsy. The same thing keep happening till (Sunday). They take she back to the hospital and then we get the news this afternoon (Sunday).”
The child said that her parents’ relationship was no ideal situation, “They used to fight a lot.”
The dead woman’s friend, Marsha McKenzie, of Tucber Park said that the woman endured a life of torture at the hands of her reputed husband. “He always knocking she. He used to beat she bad. Whenever I tell she go report it to the police, she don’t go.”
She recalled that on Sunday morning, the reputed husband visited her home, “He laughing and tell me, ‘Come see what happen to yuh friend she messing up she skin.’ When I go I talking to she and she ain’t responding. I know they do an x-ray today (Sunday) and it show that she got some fracture skull. Plus I want to know what is the black thing coming out of she mouth. How she get a fracture skull? I want to know what is the black substance coming out of her mouth?”
The couple produced 20-year-old Richard Simon, Nicola 16, Sonia 15, Isaac 11, Odessa nine and one who died in 2002 by drowning in a waterway at the Esplanade Recreational Park in New Amsterdam.
And another post mortem revealed that 45-year-old Tir Totoram of Lot 61 Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, bled to death as a result of the steel rod which punctured a major blood vessel.
Police in Division ‘B’ of the Guyana Police Force still need evidence before his death can be considered a homicide.
According to police reports, the rod pierced his groin and exited through his back. The autopsy was performed by Dr. Nehaul Singh at the Skeldon Hospital yesterday.
The man’s body was discovered about 05:45 hours yesterday Thursday impaled on a steel rod.
Reports state that a resident nearby the man’s home was constructing a concrete gutter and steel rods were projecting from the ground. Initial investigations suggest that the man was under the influence of alcohol and had an altercation with someone.
It appears as though he was fleeing and attempted to jump across a section of the construction site when he was spiked on one of the rods.

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