Ithaca man stabs wife to death, then tries to kill mother-in-law, self

Apr 17, 2020 News

The quiet village of Ithaca, West Bank Berbice, was rocked yesterday by the brutal murder of a 23-year-old woman, reportedly at the hands the father of her two children. The man also injured the woman’s mother before attempting suicide.

Dead: Vanessa Benjamin

The victim, an Ithaca resident, has been identified as Vanessa Benjamin, the mother of a four-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter. She was employed as a cleaner at the recently opened Ithaca Day Care Centre.
The 24-year-old suspect resides in another village. He is said to have been unemployed for years, and would regularly abuse the young woman.
Reports are that the couple was involved in a heated argument when the man armed himself with a knife, and stabbed the woman multiple times. She was found lying in a trench next to her home. The enraged man also injured the woman’s mother, Debra Hannibal, stabbing her twice as she tried to intervene to assist her daughter.
The man then plunged the knife into the left side of his chest in an apparent attempt to commit suicide.
Benjamin was rushed to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Her mother and the suspect were transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
Investigations are ongoing.

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