Latest update April 1st, 2025 5:37 PM
Cops appeal for help in finding Kwakwani midwife’s killer
Somewhere in Kwakwani, there may be someone who knows the individual who beat and strangled Paulette Wade in her bedroom last October.
But detectives appear to have hit a blank wall in their investigation and desperately need the public’s assistance in cracking this case.
Online postings on the case indicate that there are residents who could provide vital leads.
Investigators had recently detained a resident after receiving information that appeared to implicate him.
The suspect’s first name is ‘Delon’, and he lives a short distance from the slain midwife. However, he has since been released.
Paulette Wade
He was among several who were arrested and released during the initial stages of the investigation. Police reportedly subsequently received further information and took him back into custody.
Investigators have ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing. Reports out of the community suggest that the 37-year-old midwife had received threats from another woman. A woman was among those questioned, while Wade’s reputed husband was also briefly detained.
Wade’s six-year-old daughter, who sleeps in the same bedroom, had reportedly awoken in darkness on October 25 to see a man, whom she could not recognize, attacking her mother, who had called out the name ‘Delon.’
The terrified child reportedly remained cowering in the bed and when morning came, saw her mother lying motionless on the floor.
She then went to a neighbour’s house, and accompanied by a nine-year-old, informed staffers at the Kwakwani Hospital.
A postmortem revealed that Wade was beaten and manually strangled.
They established that an intruder could have prised open the victim’s back door. There are suggestions that the killer was familiar with the layout of Wade’s house, since he reportedly switched off all the lights before attacking her in her bedroom.
Police are appealing to anyone with information that could assist in apprehending Wade’s killer to contact them, even if they do so anonymously.
Police contact numbers include 444-2222 (Kwakwani); 225-6411, 225-8196, 227-1149, 226-7065, 911 or the nearest police station.
Persons can also contact Kaieteur News journalist Michael Jordan anonymously on 645-2447, or [email protected].
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