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Beating death…Relatives say father always attacked daughter
By Leon Suseran
“It was a father who was against his daughter”, said an uncle of the dead Corriverton girl who was
Dead: Rowletta Onica Greaves
brutally killed by her own father. Relatives of 32-year-old, Rowletta Onica Greaves, who died last Monday afternoon, are quite disturbed and shocked that the police or help was not summoned during what has been chronicled as a heated and violent exchange between the father and daughter.
According to the dead woman’s mother, Doris Greaves, the victim’s great-aunt, Carolyn “Doreen” Ferdinand in whose yard the murder took place, should have acted in a swifter way by alerting the police or even calling out for assistance while the two individuals were arguing. “After he started to hit she on she head, she [Ferdinand] stand up there and watching how he knocking she,” Greaves recounted.
“She didn’t call me either, she called my other daughter. She called till at Linden. I ain’t vex with she [Ferdinand] for that. What I am annoyed with her for, she could’ve called for help. Somebody would have come to the rescue. When they [father and daughter] started the arguing, apparently he followed she [Rowletta] to the back. The neighbour asked her [the aunt] if to call the police and she said ‘no’,” Greaves added.
A tragedy of unspeakable proportions occurred as 50-year-old Charles Greaves, a security guard attached to the Mayor & Town Council of Corriverton, fatally bludgeoned his daughter Rowletta, of Lot 34 Scottsburg, Corriverton.
The gruesome murder took place while Rowletta was visiting her elderly aunt, Carolyn “Doreen” Ferdinand’s Lot 56 Princetown, Corriverton home to help as she usually does on a daily basis. Her father also lives at the same address.
According to the dead woman’s mother, Doris, her daughter had been arguing all day with the man and the argument became heated after Charles plugged in an iron, after which an argument ensued. She (Doris) was at work while the incident took place.
But according to the mother, this was not the first instance of Charles Greaves physically abusing his daughter. “It was not the first time he doing it. He use to always attack her. She didn’t want him to be locked up.”
According to Anwar Hussain, who lives in the front house in the yard where the incident took place, and who was at home just after 1pm when it all started, he heard quarrelling.
He added that his father asked Doreen if she had called the police and she replied in the negative.
“I left to go out and when I come back, I heard that they were still quarrelling. I see dem two arguing under the starapple tree. I told dem to stop it, and she said she won’t take it like that because Charles broke her teeth. She said no, she won’t leave him like that, that she will either kill he or something,” Hussain noted.
He said that he then left and after about half an hour later, upon returning to the yard, he saw a huge crowd, and then he discovered that Rowletta had died from a severe beating by her father.
“They were arguing since around 9 [o clock], but it didn’t look like anything serious”, Hussain reflected.
According to her aunts, the girl’s head was severely battered, with brains spewing out. They reported her having received some 15 blows to the head. Initially during the argument, Charles Greaves had also knocked out a few teeth from the victim’s mouth.
Police quickly arrived and arrested the suspect, who is currently in custody at the Springlands lock- ups.
Grieving mother, Doris Greaves
It was revealed that Charles Greaves was discharged as a service member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) some 25 years ago for being mentally unfit for duty. The relatives stated that he had been using illegal drugs since and usually “trips out” from time to time.
Rowletta’s aunts opined that, in light of the incident, the authorities should do something to remove a lot of mentally ill persons from the streets of Corriverton as they pose a danger to citizens.
One of the girl’s uncles stated that Rowletta used to assist a lot in the family and that something had to trigger the father to do what he did.
“You had to have this thing in your thoughts before. This had to be in your mind over a period of time. He had it in mind and was just waiting for the opportune time. It can’t be over an iron being plugged in.
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