Latest update February 24th, 2025 9:02 AM
Girl, 17, for court Monday for killing best friend
– victim was two months pregnant
The 17-year-old girl who allegedly killed 21-year-old Lloyda Thomas last Thursday is to be charged with murder. Relatives of the victim revealed that she was two months pregnant. They are suggesting that the slaying may
Murder victim Lloyda Renita Thomas and her friend.
have stemmed from envy.
A source said that the teen is likely to appear in court tomorrow. Kaieteur News understands that she has already retained an Attorney and that she is now refusing to provide detectives with any information.
Thomas, of Sunflower Close, South Ruimveldt, died around 23.30 hrs after she was stabbed in the head and stomach with a broken bottle, shortly after leaving the Aracari Resort at Versailles, West Bank Demerara.
Relatives who witnessed the postmortem said that Thomas, who has a one-year-old daughter, was stabbed at least ten times. However, police said that the other wounds were minor, and it was the wound to the stomach that caused her death.
Kaieteur News understands that police have not retrieved the ‘murder weapon’, which may have been shattered. However, they have reportedly taken a statement from an eyewitness.
According to reports, the suspect, known as ‘Angie’, and Thomas, had visited the Aracari Resort on Thursday afternoon in the company of about five other friends. Thomas also took her one-year-old daughter with her.
An official at the resort recalled seeing the friends drinking at the poolside. They were seen leaving together around 22.00 hrs.
An argument reportedly broke out between the two while they were in a taxi a short distance from the resort. The teen, who was allegedly intoxicated, reportedly broke a bottle and stabbed Thomas, who succumbed before she could be taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
The suspect reportedly told police that she was ‘high’ when the altercation occurred.
But Amanda Prince, the victim’s mother, and other relatives, yesterday expressed skepticism about this report and believe that investigators should question the other friends who were present.
Some of the relatives said that they were suspicious that there appeared to be no damage to the clothing that Thomas was reportedly wearing when she was stabbed.
“We feel that something is being hidden (from us),” a relative said. “None of her friends has come to us to tell us what happened. We don’t know exactly where it happened and when they took her to the hospital.”
“All that I want is the truth about my daughter’s death,” her mother said.
A distraught Amanda Prince said that the suspect is an orphan and that her daughter and ‘Angie’ had known each other since they were little girls.
They later lost contact, but reunited when they were in their teens. ‘Angie’ eventually moved into Lloyda Thomas’ Sunflower Close, South Ruimveldt apartment.
But although the two were best friends, Thomas’s relatives said that the suspect sometimes displayed envious feelings for Thomas.
Contrary to initial reports, the suspect did not have any children, and the relatives suggested that this may have been the source of envy.
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