Man attempts suicide after hacking mother-in law to death

Dec 02, 2010 News

A 26-year-old labourer of Moleson Creek, Corentyne, is being closely monitored in the New Amsterdam Hospital after attempting suicide, following the brutal slaying of his mother-in-law on Tuesday.
Ashton Henry, called ‘Black Boy’ was arrested and taken to the hospital, minutes after his mother-in-law, 49-year-old Jennifer Thomas, was found dead in her house with multiple stab wounds.
Police, in a press statement, said that they are investigating the murder of Thomas, a farmer of Moleson Creek, Corentyne, whose body was found in her home at about 18:15hours on Tuesday.
They said that investigations led to the arrest of a suspect who was found in his home nearby with wounds to his left ankle and left wrist and is suspected to have ingested a poisonous liquid in attempts to commit suicide.
Reports reaching this newspaper indicated that Henry lived with the daughter of the deceased, Janice, in what has been described as an abusive relationship.
According to a source, the young couple was living together for the past seven years.
This newspaper was told that Henry had once chopped his reputed wife’s brother and had served a prison sentence for it.
When he came out of prison he begged his reputed wife’s relatives for forgiveness and resumed living with Janice for the next four months.
But on Sunday, Henry’s reputed wife went to her mother Jennifer Thomas and complained that the abuse was continuing and that Henry had threatened to kill her.
Thomas, according to the source, subsequently pacified things between Henry and Janice, but the couple’s problem continued into the following day.
Again Thomas spoke to her son-in-law and this time she took temporary possession of the feuding couple’s three children.
On Tuesday, Janice Thomas, who had left her husband at home, received a telephone call from her son informing her that Henry was demanding that she come home immediately.
From all appearances the suspect had collected his children from their grandmother and Janice had no clue about the gruesome discovery that she was about to make.
Since she had left her children with her mother she went to her house first and called out to her but got no reply.
Becoming suspicious and scared, she went and fetched her sister and together they went back to her mother’s residence.
While heading there, they saw the suspect who ran away upon being spotted.
Their suspicion grew further and upon entering their mother’s house, the two sisters first saw blood.
They went further into the kitchen where they saw their mother lying in a pool of blood.
She had a deep wound in one of her legs and a hole in her neck which was stuffed with a piece of cloth.
They immediately contacted the police, who, acting promptly, arrested the suspect and subsequently placed him under guard at the New Amsterdam hospital but not before he had ingested malathion.

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