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Crane man kills wife
…ties up, gag stepdaughter before escaping
By Romila Boodram
An 11-year-old girl awoke yesterday to find herself bound and gagged and later discovered her mother’s nude body with a stab wound to her neck.
Dead is 30-year-old Candy Rawlins, a housewife of Lot 4 Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara.
Candy Rawlins and her husband in happy times.
Police said that the woman’s husband, Vidol Anthony Rawlins, who is the suspect, has not yet been arrested.
According to reports, her husband of six years stabbed her to the neck some time Thursday night. A note that the man left behind suggested that the killing was because the woman refused to have sex with him.
The woman’s nude body was discovered on her bedroom floor a little before 09:00 hrs yesterday by her daughter who managed to untie herself.
Kaieteur News was told that Rawlins’ face was wrapped with a mosquito net and bound with duct tape. Her hands were tied behind her back with a sheet. Investigators found a bloodstained knife next to her body.
There are reports that the 44-year-old suspect left a note behind claiming that he loved his wife very much and he regretted his action.
A senior police source who saw the letter said that the carpenter asked for forgiveness from his mother who resides overseas.
The suspect also requested that no one search for him since he will be with his father who died a few years back.
Apart from the report police received from one neighbour, this publication was told that the suspect’s sister made a second report.
The police source said, that the suspect texted his sister yesterday and told her that he had done something bad and requested that she go to the house.
The sister who resides in Georgetown made the report at the Vreed- en- Hoop police station after a neighbour informed her of what her sibling had done.
Recalling what happened, the daughter told investigators that she was in her room Thursday night and heard her stepfather demanding sex from her mother.
She said that she did not take the “noise too serious” because constant quarrel is a norm in the home.
“She said she went back to sleep and then the next day when she wake up the stepfather taped her mouth and tied her up in a chair,” a police source explained.
He added that the 11-year-old girl claimed that she managed to untie herself after some time and ran to her mother’s room.
“When she see her mother she start scream and she run and call out for the neighbours who then informed the police,” the source said.
At the scene yesterday, neighbours gathered in front the woman’s home as police were carrying out their investigations.
One woman claimed that she saw the suspect leaving his home early yesterday with his haversack.
“He does normally leave around that time to go to work, so I thought he was going to work but he used a different route than he does normally use,” the neighbour claimed.
No one reported hearing any noise coming from the house.
Neighbours said that the couple fought and quarreled often.
“Early this year he broke her hand and it was in bandage for months,” a neighbour said.
Investigations are ongoing.
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