Georgetown: Two men have been taken into police custody as investigations continue into the murder of 56-year-old businesswoman Bibi Nesha Shairoon, called “Shakeela”, who was on Monday found dead at her home at Lot 3, Novar, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara with her hands and feet bound and with injuries to other parts of her body.
The mother of three, who only last month celebrated her 56th birthday, had also been robbed earlier this year. According to an autopsy done on Tuesday, Shairoon died of blunt trauma to the head, and there was evidence that she had been raped.
A teenager who resides in the same community is one of the men in custody, while the other suspect is from Good Faith, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.
“The boy that get arrest use to visit the woman shop steady to buy phone cards, and she always catching him thieving her fruits from the trees in her backyard,” one resident told this newspaper.
The dead woman, who had lived alone, used to operate a grocery store that also sold garden chemicals, cell phone cards and cell phones. It was situated in the lower flat of her home, which was also ransacked.
Police suspect that she had been attacked and robbed on Saturday night, since her body was found on Monday morning. According to a relative, the bandits gained entry to the home by breaking into a wooden section in the lower flat.
“They gone with a lot of cell phones, jewellery and her stocks. We didn’t find anything; the robbers carried away everything,” the relative said.
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