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Teacher’s throat slit
Natalie Loncke
– lover on the run
By Latoya Giles and Tiffany Bowen
“I turned 70 last month and I thanked the father that all my children were alive…..now this come and happen. How am I gonna cope with this tragedy,” cried Marjorie Loncke.
The woman’s 41-year-old daughter, Natalie Loncke, a school teacher attached at the Salmen Fraser Nursery School, was repeatedly stabbed to the head by her paramour last night.
Kaieteur News understands that the man also slit the woman’s throat. The incident happened shortly before 19:00hrs yesterday.
Loncke died while receiving medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
One of the woman’s neighbours told Kaieteur News that she heard the couple arguing some time around 16:00hrs.
According to the woman, Natalie and the suspect continued arguing. The woman then demanded that he leave the house.
However the suspect refused to the leave and a fight ensued. This newspaper understands that the woman’s daughter, Renatha Craig, 19, rushed to her mother’s aid.
The neighbour further told this publication that after Craig jumped between the couple; the suspect dealt her blow to the face with a piece of wood.
The teen whose face was visibly bruised and swollen last night reportedly ran from the house with her younger sister and went to a relative’s home.
It was then the neighbour said, that the suspect got the opportunity to overpower the woman.
According to the neighbour she heard a loud crashing sound; then the woman was heard screaming.
Minutes, later the suspect emerged from the house, checked to see who was looking and went back into the house.
“He come outside and check to see who looking….but I think he went back inside to see if she dead,” said the neighbour.
Renatha Craig
Kaieteur News was further told that the second time he emerged from the apartment, the suspect had a bag clutched to his side. According to neighbours, the suspect calmly rode walked away from the scene.
Investigators now believe that it is the murder weapon that the suspect removed from the scene, since they have been unable to find it.
Last evening the couple’s bedroom was blood splattered.
At the hospital
Scores of relatives rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after receiving word that the woman had died.
One niece told this publication that the woman’s eldest daughter came running to her house, telling them that the suspect was threatening to kill her mother.
According to the niece, she immediately went back to her aunt’s home to investigate. The niece along with the woman’s eldest daughter entered the house and found Loncke’s partly nude body on the bedroom floor.
The niece said that initially they thought that the blood was coming from Loncke’s neck. However when they were removing her body, that the realized the woman was coming from her head.
With the assistance of neighbours and police the injured woman was taken to the hospital. Sources at the scene told Kaieteur News that Loncke was unconscious when she was removed from the house.
About 15 minutes later, at the hospital, Loncke succumbed to her injuries. Other relatives at the hospital told Kaieteur News that the Loncke started having a relationship with the man only in November.
Present at the hospital was Loncke’s close friend, Narmattie Indrapaul. According to Indrapaul she and Loncke had shared a friendship for the past 13 years.
“We worked together..She was such a nice person, she really didn’t deserve to die like that,” cried the woman.
Indrapaul added that Loncke was supposed to come over to her house. Instead she, Indrapaul, got the message about her death.
Up to press time the suspect was still on the run. Kaieteur News understands that the man had served time in prison and was recently released.
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