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D’Urban Street murder victim was strangled – suspect

Jun 02, 2012 News

 

 

Donna Thomas’s killer inflicted a beating on her before strangling the 49-year-old former guard in her D’Urban Street apartment.
An autopsy conducted yesterday revealed that Thomas died from manual strangulation and also suffered blunt trauma to the head. Sources said that some of the bones in the woman’s neck were broken. She also had a broken thumb.
Earlier reports had suggested that Thomas had died from multiple stab wounds.
Police believe that she was slain by a drug-addicted boyfriend during a quarrel over money. Police have received reports that the two were arguing some hours before Thomas was found dead.
The suspect, who was detained on Wednesday night, has denied killing his partner.
Thomas, a mother of three, and a former employee of Professional Guard Service (PGS), was found dead in her bed last week Saturday.
This newspaper was told that Thomas had been renting the apartment for the past eight months.
Kaieteur News understands that some of the woman’s colleagues had visited the premises on Saturday and had observed that the front door was slightly open.
After calling and getting no answer, they entered the apartment and saw Thomas lying motionless on her bed with marks of violence on her body.
The landlord for the apartment, Randolph Yaw, said that the woman was living with a drug addict and that the two often argued.
Yaw said that he last heard Thomas’s voice around 23:00 hrs last week Friday just before he retired to bed.
He said that from information gathered, he understands the woman collected her wages that day. Yaw said that the man with whom Thomas was living asked for money but that she refused to give him any.
He suggested that this may have led to the suspect killing Thomas.
Police had detained another man who frequented the house, but he was released.

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