Ruby girl’s death…Post mortem supports teen died by suicide

Jan 06, 2013 News

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The father of 15-year-old Natasha Nazamudeen doubted that his daughter’s death was a suicide but a source close to the investigation has stated that the death was a clear case of suicide.
The teen’s father had expressed his concern in sections of the media that he believes that his daughter’s death was a murder, since according to him her body bore marks of violence. However, a post mortem revealed that his daughter died from suffocation as a result of hanging.
In the teen’s father opinion if his daughter had hanged herself the post mortem should have stated that she died of a broken neck, given the fact that she tied a piece of cloth around her neck and jumped from the top of the wardrobe.
However, a source close to the investigation explained that the cause of death was suffocation due to hanging because after the teen jumped from the wardrobe she was not suspended. Instead her feet were touching the ground. Hence the teen suffocated while hanging from the rope with her feet touching with not enough support to free herself from the cloth.
The man had also reported that his daughter had never shown suicidal tendencies and to date investigators have not showed him the cloth his daughter used to hang herself.
On December 18, last, the teen was found hanging in her mother’s home at Tuschen East Bank Essequibo, where she lived with her mother and step-father. She was a student of the Stewartville Secondary school.
Further, there are also reports that a close friend of the teen, Mohammed Safraz Sattaur, took his own life on Friday after reportedly being questioned about Natasha’s death by welfare officers.
And an irate grandmother is blaming social welfare officers for the death of her 16-year-old grandson. She is claiming that the officials caused the child to commit suicide and is demanding that the welfare officers who spoke to the child in the absence of his parents step forward and identify themselves.
Rahala Sattaur, of Anna Catherina, said that the welfare officers questioned her grandson; Mohamed Safraz Sattaur, about a young girl who had committed suicide in early December. Sattaur said that her grandson was the friend of Natasha Nazamudeen who killed herself on December 18 last. Sattaur said that her grandson and Nazamudeen both attended the Stewartville Secondary School and were close friends.
Welfare officers then intervened in the matter and it is her understanding that they had visited the girl’s mother. “I don’t know what the mother tell the welfare officers,” the grandmother said, “But it seem like she direct dem to my grandson cause she did know that she daughter and he was friends.”
On Friday, she said the welfare officers visited her grandson at his Lot 38 Fourth Street Anna Catherina home and questioned him. Sattaur admits that she is not aware of what the child was told. She further said that she has no idea who the officials were that visited the home.  “What I do know is that they went to the house and questioned the child when he parents went out.”
Around 15:00hours on Friday, Sattaur said her son Mohamed Akbar Sattaur and his wife discovered young Sattaur hanging from the ceiling in his bedroom. The grandmother said that according to neighbours, persons had visited the home. When they inquired, they said that the people claimed that they were welfare officers.
One neighbour, the grandmother claimed, told the officials that they should leave the child alone and come back when the parents were at home.  That neighbour said that the officials had come in a white minibus, but did not think it necessary at the time to take the vehicle’s registration number.
When the parents arrived home that afternoon, they knocked on the front door but got no answer. After they suspected that something was amidst, Sattaur said they broke down the front door and entered the house. They then had to break young Sattaur’s bedroom door and it was then that they found him hanging from the ceiling.
After the police were summoned, the child’s body was taken to the Ezekiel Funeral home.
Sattaur said that she was making plans for the child to start private school on Monday. Now she says she wants answers and most importantly, “I want to know who spoke to my grandson and what did they tell him.”
“I strongly believe that they (welfare officers) had something to do with my grandson killing himself and I want to know who went to him,” Sattaur continued.
She said young Sattaur is a quiet child who never got into trouble. She believes that the child was traumatized by his friend’s death and whatever the officials did, it added to his grief, “leaving him with no alternative but to kill himself.”

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