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Suspect reportedly held for murder of Bahamas-based Guyanese teacher
– mom suggests daughter was victim of domestic violence
A relative of slain Guyana-born teacher Marisha Bowen said yesterday that police have detained a male associate of the 34-year-old mother of two, who was found murdered in her apartment last Friday.
Murdered teacher: Marisha Bowen
The female relative told Kaieteur News that an overseas-based relative informed her that the man was taken into custody on the very day that Bowen’s body was found.
Kaieteur News was informed that the detained man has a spare key to Bowen’s Summer Street, Nassau Village, Bahamas apartment.
The two had reportedly been in a relationship since last year.
However, none of the media reports coming out of the Bahamas indicated that anyone was in custody.
The Bahamas–based Tribune quoted Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean as saying that the police “are following some good leads and we believe this matter is a matter that once we continue along the trajectory that we are on, we should bring it to resolution very soon.”
According to the Tribune, ACP Dean also said that the body only bore one wound.
An earlier report in the Bahamas Press had said that Bowen, who taught at the Charles Saunders High School, appeared to have been stabbed multiple times.
All the apartment doors were reportedly locked.
The report indicated that Bowen, who has a 16-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter, may have been slain shortly after 07:00 hrs, since it was at around this time that “loud screams were heard in the community from the complex, after what was thought to be a domestic dispute inside.”
According to the report, no one called the police, who only arrived at around 09.00 hrs, after Mrs. Bowen failed to show up at work. The owner of the apartment assisted the police in gaining access to the locked premises.
Princess Earle, the slain teacher’s mother, told Kaieteur News yesterday that she believes that her daughter was a victim of domestic violence.
Mrs. Earle, a retired member of the Guyana Police Force, revealed that her daughter was pregnant. She said that from recent phone conversations the two had, she sensed that all was not well with her daughter.
Mrs. Earle said she spoke to her daughter at around 07.15 hrs on Friday.
This indicates that the two spoke minutes before Marisha Bowen was slain.
Mrs. Earle said that while her daughter gave no hint of being fearful for her life, the young woman sounded “depressed.”
A distraught Mrs. Earle said that she checked her phone at around 11:30 hrs, and saw that she had received a message from another daughter, who lives in France.
“She sent a message saying ‘Mom where are you…are you sitting down?’
“When I saw that message I knew that it was a ‘death message.’”
She then saw that Marissa’s 16-year-old son had sent another message in which he said that his mother was dead.
The son had reportedly learnt of his mother’s murder while he was in class.
Mrs. Earle said that Marissa’s ten-year-old daughter was in Guyana on holiday, and boarded a flight for the Bahamas on Friday morning, before news of her mother’s death broke.
She revealed that her daughter, who she described as being “very friendly and very helpful,” taught at several schools in Guyana before migrating to the Bahamas three years ago.
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