Latest update June 13th, 2026 12:40 AM
Woman’s head was forcibly held down in bucket
A post mortem examination performed yesterday on the body of Shelly Persaud of Friendship, East Bank Demerara, has
Dead: Shelly Persaud
confirmed what many had suspected – murder.
The post mortem examination, which was performed by Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, gave the cause of death as drowning due to compression injury to the neck.
The body of Persaud, a mother of three, was found at her home with her head submerged in a bucket with water on Tuesday.
The findings of the post mortem confirmed that Persaud’s head was forcibly held down in the bucket of water, putting an end to claims by her reputed husband that she committed suicide.
The man remains in custody and is expected to face the court soon.
He had reportedly told Persaud’s father, whom he had summoned to the scene, that he had found his spouse in that position at around 02.00 hrs.
Orin Morris, the dead woman’s father, said that the son-in-law had suggested that his daughter committed suicide after the couple had argued over her husband coming home drunk.
But relatives of the dead woman were always suspicious that the ‘suicide’ was staged.
“I know she did not commit suicide”, Morris told this newspaper yesterday, following the post mortem examination.
Kaieteur News understands that the couple’s eight-year-old daughter has told relatives that she heard her parents arguing some time Saturday night.
The child reportedly also claimed to have seen her father beating her mother and pulling her hair while saying, “Tonight is the last night you will see your mother.”
According to the slain woman’s father, his son-in-law claimed that he came home drunk at around 23.00 hrs on Saturday. Persaud refused to sleep in the same room with him.
The son-in-law reportedly said that he awoke at around 02.00 hrs yesterday and it was then that he found Persaud’s body.
“He tell me she commit suicide, but from the way I see she, I know that no big woman can’t kill sheself in a bucket of water like that,” Mr. Morris said. From his observations, his daughter had suffered severe injuries to her neck.
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