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Best friend murder…Lloyda ‘Renita’ Thomas laid to rest
By Shyon Hoppie
Family, friends and well-wishers gathered at Sandy’s Funeral Home yesterday to pay their last respects to the late Lloyda Thomas. Thomas was the woman who was stabbed and killed by her so-called best friend after an outing
A section of the gathering during the service.
at a West Demerara location.
What was described as a “bitter sweet moment” for some, others found it very hard to accept the fact that their loved one has gone given the circumstances.
A funeral service started around 13:15 hrs with a welcome and opening prayer by Pastor Chris Brehaspat.
There were the tributes that brought a flow of emotion. As the time came for the viewing of the body, persons pushed and shoved just to get a glimpse of the “beauty that was.”
One of the relatives of the deceased had a very hard time coming to grips with the grim reality. This relative asked, “Where are the nine people that were there? … Why isn’t anyone speaking about what really happened? I need to know how my sister really died.”
Lloyda Renita Thomas, of Sunflower Close, South Ruimveldt, was stabbed to the stomach and head around 23.30 hrs on May 21, last, allegedly during a spat over who should sit where in a taxi.
Thomas succumbed before her distraught attacker and a taxi driver could take her to the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
The suspect, known as ‘Angie’, was treated at the same hospital after slashing one of her wrists.
The crowd gathered at the parlour to bid farewell.
She was subsequently detained.
“She’s very sorry now. She said that she was ‘high’ at the time,” a police source said.
Thomas is survived by a one-year-old daughter. Both women lived in the same apartment at South Ruimveldt. According to another resident, the friends, accompanied by a third woman and two children, left home at around 13.30 hrs on Thursday, after stating that they were going “to the pool over the river.”
On May 25, last, the suspect appeared before Magistrate Christel Lambert, and was remanded to prison.
The teen is accused of stabbing 20-year-old Renita Thomas to death with a broken bottle on May 21, at Versailles, West Bank Demerara.
Williams’ Attorney, Peter Hugh, was unable to enter an appearance for the young woman since he arrived late for the court hearing.
Several family members and friends of the accused and deceased were present. The murdered girl’s mother, Amanda Prince, sobbed loudly and had to be escorted to the holding area, and was thus prevented from sitting throughout the remand hearing.
The matter was adjourned until June 1.
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