Man slits 17-year-old wife’s throat

Jul 30, 2017 News

Dead: Rosanna Lakhpal

The life of a 17-year-old of No.2 Village East Canje woman was cut short by her common law husband after a heated argument that ended in her throat being slit by the 25-year-old man.

The dead teen has been identified as Rosanna Lakhpal. The suspect who is currently on the run has been identified as Ryan Singh, 25, an unemployed man.

Reports are that the couple was arguing when the fight turned physical.

Nadira Persaud, a domestic worker who lives a street away, told this publication that the teen would babysit her ten and two-year-old when she leaves for work. She said that some time after noon, Rosanna went to her house to pick up the children.

“She come by me and me husband see a mark on she hand and he ask she wa happen deh. She seh how couple day now the mark deh down deh and then she collect dem chiren and she leff.” According to the woman not long after her 10-year-old showed up at her place of employment with the baby in arms telling her that the couple was fighting and they were told by Ryan Singh to exit the yard.

“She come and seh how Ryan and Rosanna fighting. I tell she hold on li’l bit. Me boss lady tell me go see wa happen.”

The woman recounted that upon her arrival at Rosanna’s home her ten-year-old daughter refused to enter the home since she was afraid that the couple was still fighting.

“When I reach deh it had clothes burning at the back and me daughter didn’t want go in so I go in with her and the baby because I had a bag fuh collect.

“I deh calling for Rosanna and me nah hear nothing. Then I call me (Raki) brother on the phone and when he come he ask me wa happen and I tell he I meet the door open and that I calling and nobody answering”, Persaud explained.

At that point they both decided to enter the home and called out for the teen, but again no answer. They were in the upper flat of the two storied concrete building, she said, when they decided to check in the lower flat where the teen lived with her common law husband.

It was then that they discovered young Rosanna’s body lying on the floor in the hall of the apartment covered with sheets.

“We see she foot first but then I de still calling on her thinking she sleeping. But is when I pull she head I see the throat and I start holler. The cushion from the chair did brace next to she face,” the woman said.

She immediately raised an alarm and the teen’s mother was contacted. The police were subsequently summoned to the scene. The suspect reportedly fled the scene after committing the act and is on the run.

Kaieteur News understands that the suspect was evicted from the home two days prior to the killing. The couple was said to be involved in frequent fights and arguments over the 25-year-old’s drug habit and unemployment.

The suspect would also physically assault the teen whenever she asks for money, according to police sources. What is believed to be the murder weapon was discovered in a toilet bowl some 20feet west of where the body was found.

The body is currently at the Arokium Funeral Home awaiting post mortem.

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