Bloody Friday…Woman, 24, murdered by husband

Jan 04, 2014 News

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A jilted and jealous 27-year-old man fatally stabbed the mother of his three children to death at her mother’s house located at 932 Second Street, Paradise, East Coast Demerara.

Around 19:00 hours yesterday, 24-year-old Monica Adams reportedly met her demise in the presence of her six, four and one-year old children at the hands of their father, Paul Scotland, whom her 16-year-old brother, Charles Elliott, claimed had barged in their house and proceeded to kill his sister. And about an hour later, the police arrested the killer who was identified as Paul Scotland.
The young man who witnessed the incident recalled that his sister, her children, a cousin and him were watching television at their Paradise residence when Scotland walked in the open front door, grabbed Monica by her hair and dragged her to the back of the yard.
“He walked in the house and dragged her by her hair. He pulled her through the mud and carried her to the back of the yard where he stabbed her up with a small knife,” the distraught young man said.
He explained that Scotland stabbed his sister about her face and upper body. He said that as soon as the man grabbed his sister he rushed to grab a metal pipe and joined the melee which was unfolding at the back of their yard.
In an effort to save his sister from her abusive ex-boyfriend he dealt the man two lashes with the metal pipe.  At this point the man turned on him and in a fit of rage chased after him with the said knife in hand.
The young man recalled that he ran towards the house which at that time was in a state of confusion. “I had a metal pipe which I hit him two times with. Then he turn to me and stated running me through the house and he catch me one time with the knife.”
According to the brother, amidst the screaming of the terrified children, Scotland abandoned his attempt to injure him and fled the scene of the incident.
The 16-year-old said, “Everyone was surprised to see him cause he don’t usually come there. He just walk in and just went straight to her. The door was open cause my cousin had just come in.”
Elliott recalled that he urgently went to the neighbour and called his brother who immediately arrived on the scene. They solicited the assistance of neighbours and the woman’s body was escorted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to the young man, the last time he saw Scotland was about three weeks ago when he visited his children. He said that the couple used to live at Helen #1, Mahaica but later moved to the mother’s residence in Paradise.
When Kaieteur News arrived at GPHC, relatives of the woman were in a state of disbelief. They related that they had received a call from Adams’s brother who had informed them that Monica Adams was at the hospital. They were oblivious to the fact that she had already died.
Relatives recalled that earlier today, the man had been placing several calls to the woman who kept insisting that she was finished with him.
Her aunt, Beverly Peters said, “They broke up last year and he always saying he gonna kill her.” She stated that the two shared a relationship from since she was around 16 and him 14.
Peters recalled that the relationship had terminated since she was constantly battered by him continuously. “She leff he cause they used to live at the mother house and he used to want beat she in the house. She just get fed up and done with he.”
“I see she today, she was alright but he been calling she phone all day. When I answer he stay quiet but he then block he number and kept calling and calling,” Peters said.
The aunt recalled the last phone call between the two. According to Peters, her niece told the man, “I done tell yuh one thing. I done and that’s it.”
She said that man was “molesting” her niece despite having started a new relationship. “He living with someone in Mahaica but we don’t know what’s he problem.”
Additionally, her brother echoed the words of her aunt as he recalled that there had been unwanted phone calls to the woman earlier that day. “He call she this morning and she tell he to leave her alone that she ain’t want nothing to do with him.”
“He was very annoying to her cell phone. He was very possessive and so on. The two of them used to fight all the time,” the young man recalled. Her brother also said that his sister was a very fun person but described her ‘child father’ as argumentative and abusive.
At the murder scene, blood stains trailed through the house. That was all that reflected what transpired that night. The house was empty but the door was left open.
A neighbour who resides oblique to the murder scene said that when he had returned home, someone called out to him so that he could transport Adams to the hospital.
He said, however, that at that time a bus had already arrived on the scene to transport the woman. He recalled, “I see when they fetch her out but she done look dead already.”
Other neighbours recalled hearing loud screams emanating from the home.
Adams was described as a quiet and cool person by few  known to her who were at the hospital.

 

 

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