An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

The Mar­aval woman who was found ly­ing in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor on Tues­day af­ter­noon, may have been killed as a re­sult of a fam­i­ly dis­pute.

Res­i­dents of Saut D’Eau Road, Mar­aval, yes­ter­day said while 65-year-old moth­er of four An­ja­nee Lutch­man-Isidore had a hand­ful of friends, she al­so had en­e­mies who would have want­ed her dead.

The vic­tim’s body was dis­cov­ered by a rel­a­tive of her hus­band’s around 5.36 pm on Tues­day, af­ter she failed to re­spond to her hus­band’s calls.

Lutch­man-Isidore’s hus­band is 95 years old and is bedrid­den as a re­sult of a stroke. She was his pri­ma­ry care­giv­er.

While no one was at home when Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the area yes­ter­day, res­i­dents liv­ing close by said the vic­tim used to keep to her­self.

But one man said, “She was very friend­ly to me.”

Say­ing Lutch­man-Isidore moved to the area at least ten years ago af­ter mar­ry­ing her hus­band, he said there had been an on­go­ing dis­pute over the fam­i­ly-owned prop­er­ty which was nes­tled on the hill­side in Mar­aval.

Guardian Me­dia was told, “She had her way.”

An­oth­er per­son claimed her pres­ence may have “ag­i­tat­ed” oth­er rel­a­tives.

Po­lice ini­tial­ly claimed her death may have oc­curred dur­ing a rob­bery, but it was un­cer­tain if and what was tak­en from the house up to late yes­ter­day.

When Guardian Me­dia went to the house, sev­er­al se­cu­ri­ty cam­eras were seen around the perime­ter of the two-storey prop­er­ty, which al­so boast­ed sev­er­al apart­ments.

The vic­tim’s body was found ly­ing be­hind a grey met­al kitchen door lo­cat­ed on the north­ern side of the com­pound, with a wound to the head.

Res­i­dents said they were not fear­ful of be­ing vic­tims of crime af­ter learn­ing of the killing, as they strong­ly be­lieve it is a do­mes­tic mat­ter.

An au­top­sy was sched­uled to be per­formed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day.