Be­fore she was chopped to death by her hus­band, bank­ing su­per­vi­sor Omatie Ram­di­al-De­o­bar­ran sent a video to her fam­i­ly giv­ing a peek at the abuse she suf­fered at the hands of Amar De­o­bar­ran and a fe­male rel­a­tive.

In the video which is al­most three min­utes long, Omatie re­minds De­o­bar­ran how he threat­ened to "saw off" her neck. A woman threat­ens to "kick" Omatie in her mouth when she speaks about De­o­bar­ran's in­fi­deli­ty.

De­o­bar­ran had been in­censed that she had used up US dol­lars to hire a lawyer to file for di­vorce be­cause he cheat­ed in their mar­riage by fa­ther­ing a child with an­oth­er woman three years ago.

De­o­bar­ran, 41, a teacher at Av­o­cat Vedic School, be­gan the af­fair about four years ago, but it was on­ly last Sep­tem­ber that he con­fessed to the in­fi­deli­ty. 

Amar Deobarran and wife, Omatie Ramdial-Deobarran in happier times.

De­o­bar­ran sub­ject­ed Omatie to ver­bal and emo­tion­al abuse which end­ed with her mur­der around 7:40 pm on Fri­day at their South Oropouche Trace, Bar­rack­pore home.

Omatie's mur­der was wit­nessed by the cou­ple's eight-year-old son.

De­o­bar­ran died at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he was found sit­ting at the side of a track, a quar­ter-mile from his home. He drank a weed­i­cide, be­lieved to be gramox­one. Their 13-year-old daugh­ter was up­stairs when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Omatie's fa­ther, Ram­di­al Kan­chan, said two weeks ago his daugh­ter, who worked at Bankers In­sur­ance in Ch­agua­nas, came home and told him her hus­band was hav­ing an af­fair.

"I tell her girl, I can't say noth­ing. All yuh is hus­band and wife, try and mend up things. But she said the hus­band have a child with the woman," Kan­chan said.

Asked whether she spoke about De­o­bar­ran be­ing abu­sive, Kan­chan said, "She say when she sit­ting in the ham­mock he would pick up a cut­lass and knock it right round the ham­mock."

Jagdesh Kanchan, the brother of Omatie Deobarran at his Oropouche Trace South, Barrackpore home, yesterday.

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Omatie's broth­er Jagdesh said he was sur­prised when his sis­ter asked them to move back home. 

"She told me she filed for di­vorce last Mon­day and she give us a heads up that she wants to come back here to stay," Jagdesh said.

"The judge said that Amar can stay in the front part of the house with his moth­er and Oma and the chil­dren will stay in the back. Last Thurs­day Amar came and pick up the child with­out her knowl­edge. The court says he is not sup­posed to do that. My sis­ter called her lawyer and yes­ter­day (Fri­day) Amar got a call from the Princes Town court to come and pick up a pa­per. He still has vis­i­ta­tion rights but with a court mar­shall. Maybe he got an­gry about that."

Jagdesh said Omatie was in­side the apart­ment with her son when De­o­bar­ran knocked and barged in.

"He told us his fa­ther start­ed to chop Oma to the neck as she sat by the com­put­er. He say he just see mom­my fall to the ground. He says 'mom­my has a big wound in she hand big so and dad­dy just run out in the back'."

For three hours, the child was sick af­ter see­ing the mur­der.

De­o­bar­ran grabbed a bot­tle of weed­i­cide and ran down a track to the back where he con­sumed it. He died at 1:25 am at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The cou­ple had been to­geth­er for 14 years, but he did not know they were un­hap­py.

Neigh­bour Ba­j­nath Ram­nar­ine said, "I saw him a few days ago. The chil­dren run and hug him. I did not know he was hav­ing prob­lems with his wife."

Gee­ta Ram­nar­ine said De­o­bar­ran grew up with them and nev­er ap­peared to be a vi­o­lent per­son.

Be­fore she died, Omatie told her fam­i­ly her heartache was greater be­cause her hus­band's fam­i­ly had ac­cept­ed the af­fair and the woman with whom he was hav­ing an af­fair even paid $10,000 for surgery for one of De­o­bar­ran's fe­male rel­a­tives.

The De­o­bar­ran fam­i­ly has since apol­o­gised for his ac­tions say­ing they nev­er knew him to be vi­o­lent. De­o­bar­ran's moth­er was too dis­traught to speak. Two of his cousins said the fam­i­ly did not con­done vi­o­lence.

Au­top­sies will be done on the bod­ies to­mor­row. Sep­a­rate fu­ner­als will be held. The cou­ple's chil­dren are now stay­ing at their grand­fa­ther's home.