28-year-old Siparia woman burnt, beaten and chopped to death
By
Susan Mohammed
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| Rehanna Ali |
A WOMAN whose family said she endured three years of physical and
mental abuse was found chopped to death at her home in Siparia on
Tuesday.
Rehanna Ali, 28, was found with her head almost severed. Four of her fingers were cut off during what police believe was her attempt to fight off her killer.
Her body was found in the living room of her one-bedroom wooden house at Incinerator Road, Spring Trace, Quarry Village.
Relatives said she had been beaten and burned by a male relative, now in police custody.
Ali’s mother, Myroon Gaffoor, and sister Sheriffa Jokhan, who lived about 35 metres away from her house, wept yesterday as they recounted seeing Ali’s body numerous times with bruises and cigarette burns and hearing Ali screaming as the walls of her home were pounded from the inside.
Gaffoor said: “The relationship was nice for about two months, then he started to beat and abuse her. He would tell her that she is ugly and nobody liked her.
“Then he would accuse her of being with other people. He would beat her until she was black and blue. He even burned her with a cigarette on her breasts and her cheeks and told her he did that so nobody would like her.
“She couldn’t even go to the market, or to the grocery.”
Jokhan said: “He kept her locked up in the house like she was in jail. She told me she wanted to commit suicide, because she was fed up. I used to try to advise her to leave and get a job and find someone else, but she was too afraid.”
Two years ago, Ali ended the relationship with the man for a few months.
Relatives said Ali took out a restraining order against him. But she soon returned to the house and rekindled ties.
Gaffoor said she last saw her daughter on Sunday.
“She went with him to Los Iros beach with another couple. I found out that he slapped her on the beach.
“She was afraid because he would threaten to kill and rape her sister and I. She said she did not want anything to happen to her family.”
Gaffoor said on Tuesday afternoon the man called out at her house.
“He said ‘Come and see what Rehanna do’.
“My husband went and did not want me to see. I went in and see her covered in blood, her right hand over her face and her fingers chopped off.
“I called out to her and telling her to get up. Her body was stiff. I said look what happened to my baby. I asked him (the suspect) what happened. He didn’t answer me, he didn’t even call the police.”
Police have in custody a 48-year-old ‘PH’ taxi-driver and construction worker.
Relatives said the suspect had a pending charge of rape before the court.
A party of police officers of the South-Western Police Division, led by Senior Superintendent Lewis, Superintendent Ramlal and Inspector Seedharie, visited the scene.
An autopsy performed by Dr Eslyn McDonald-Burris at the Forensic Science Centre yesterday concluded that Ali died from multiple chop wounds.
Corporal Haynes is investigating.
Rehanna Ali, 28, was found with her head almost severed. Four of her fingers were cut off during what police believe was her attempt to fight off her killer.
Her body was found in the living room of her one-bedroom wooden house at Incinerator Road, Spring Trace, Quarry Village.
Relatives said she had been beaten and burned by a male relative, now in police custody.
Ali’s mother, Myroon Gaffoor, and sister Sheriffa Jokhan, who lived about 35 metres away from her house, wept yesterday as they recounted seeing Ali’s body numerous times with bruises and cigarette burns and hearing Ali screaming as the walls of her home were pounded from the inside.
Gaffoor said: “The relationship was nice for about two months, then he started to beat and abuse her. He would tell her that she is ugly and nobody liked her.
“Then he would accuse her of being with other people. He would beat her until she was black and blue. He even burned her with a cigarette on her breasts and her cheeks and told her he did that so nobody would like her.
“She couldn’t even go to the market, or to the grocery.”
Jokhan said: “He kept her locked up in the house like she was in jail. She told me she wanted to commit suicide, because she was fed up. I used to try to advise her to leave and get a job and find someone else, but she was too afraid.”
Two years ago, Ali ended the relationship with the man for a few months.
Relatives said Ali took out a restraining order against him. But she soon returned to the house and rekindled ties.
Gaffoor said she last saw her daughter on Sunday.
“She went with him to Los Iros beach with another couple. I found out that he slapped her on the beach.
“She was afraid because he would threaten to kill and rape her sister and I. She said she did not want anything to happen to her family.”
Gaffoor said on Tuesday afternoon the man called out at her house.
“He said ‘Come and see what Rehanna do’.
“My husband went and did not want me to see. I went in and see her covered in blood, her right hand over her face and her fingers chopped off.
“I called out to her and telling her to get up. Her body was stiff. I said look what happened to my baby. I asked him (the suspect) what happened. He didn’t answer me, he didn’t even call the police.”
Police have in custody a 48-year-old ‘PH’ taxi-driver and construction worker.
Relatives said the suspect had a pending charge of rape before the court.
A party of police officers of the South-Western Police Division, led by Senior Superintendent Lewis, Superintendent Ramlal and Inspector Seedharie, visited the scene.
An autopsy performed by Dr Eslyn McDonald-Burris at the Forensic Science Centre yesterday concluded that Ali died from multiple chop wounds.
Corporal Haynes is investigating.
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