Ukranian man slits Guyanese wife’s throat in NY

Jan 17, 2012 News

– As woman’s daughter watches

A Ukrainian man yesterday slit the throat of his Guyanese wife at their Queens, New York home,

Dead: Diane Sharma

while the woman’s nine-year-old daughter watched.
Dead is Diane Sharma, 32.
The New York Post reported that the man was arrested after Police followed his bloody trail for three blocks.
“My stepfather stabbed my mom,” the stricken nine-year-old daughter of Sharma told New York Police. The couple’s two sons, aged three and four, were also at home at the time, but they did not witness the incident.
They lived on 117th Street in Jamaica, one of Sharma’s close friends in Guyana confirmed.
Reports are that Sharma and her husband were having marital difficulties for a while now. Friends in Guyana said that Sharma had even refused to take photos with that man just two years ago.
The New York Post reported that at the time of the incident, Sharma had taken out a restraining order against the man.
The man was held by New York Police in early September for allegedly assaulting and choking his wife, who then sought the restraining order against him.
The suspect is accused of slashing Sharma’s neck and stabbing her in the chest before fleeing.
“When we found her, she was lying on a bed with a knife sticking out of her neck,” one police source is quoted by the New York post as saying.
Cops responding to a report of an assault inside the home around 01:00 h spotted a trail of blood leading down the block. They tracked it and found the blood-soaked husband three blocks away on 115th Street, with cuts to his hands and arms.
A neighbour said the warring couple regularly engaged in violent blowups.
“They fight always, both at each other. They’re always crying, yelling, cursing at each other.”

Arrested: Diane Sharma’s estranged husband who has been arrested for her murder.

The suspect was taken to Jamaica Hospital and will likely be transferred to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, The New York post quoted authorities as saying.
While in Guyana, Sharma lived on the West Coast Demerara and was a past student of the Stewartville Secondary School.
Friends with whom she attended school were left in shock at news of her gruesome murder.