RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

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Af­ter hack­ing Ellen Tr­is­hana Mo­hammed to death, al­most sev­er­ing her neck off in the process, a Guayagua­yare man walked out on­to the road with a blood­ied cut­lass, flagged down a pass­ing po­lice pa­trol ve­hi­cle and sur­ren­dered.

When of­fi­cers checked the scene, they found Mo­hammed, 25, ly­ing dead near the front door­way of her un­fin­ished home, which over­looked the sea at La Brea Vil­lage, Guayagua­yare.

Po­lice said the mur­der oc­curred around 10.50 am in front of two of Mo­hammed’s three daugh­ters, a three-year-old and 18-month-old.

Her broth­er Isa­iah and her fa­ther Steve Jones were not at home when the tragedy oc­curred.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Isa­iah said his sis­ter got in­volved with the man three months ago but soon be­came fear­ful for her life. When he be­gan abus­ing her phys­i­cal­ly, she told her fam­i­ly.

“He was threat­en­ing to kill her. This man on­ly wait­ing for when I go out to work so he could at­tack my fam­i­ly. He said he want­ed to chop up the whole fam­i­ly,” Isa­iah re­vealed.

He said the po­lice nev­er both­ered to help, al­though they made sev­er­al re­ports.

“The oth­er day, this man had a blade in his hand and my sis­ter told me she want to get out of the re­la­tion­ship. I tell him I don’t want to see him in this yard and do not come back here and that is why he at­tacked my sis­ter when I gone to work,” Isa­iah ex­plained.

Mo­hammed’s fa­ther, Jones, al­so blamed the po­lice for the tragedy, say­ing it could have been avoid­ed.

The home where Ellen Trishana Mohammed was chopped to death in La Brea Village, Guayaguayare.

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“We made six re­ports in the sta­tion. They nev­er come. To­day, they put cau­tion tape and come here with 15 po­lice jeep,” Jones said.

Point­ing to his three grand­chil­dren, Jones said, “It’s the po­lice to blame be­cause when we go by the sta­tion, the po­lice run­ning you.”

Jones said yes­ter­day morn­ing, he dropped off his six-year-old grand­daugh­ter at school and then went to work. His son Isa­iah al­so went to do a pri­vate job.

“I was at work, I get a call. When I reach up here, I see her on the ground. Look at these in­no­cent chil­dren she left be­hind. The po­lice gone through. The whole sta­tion com­ing when it’s a mur­der but they nev­er come and talk to the man and give him a warn­ing,” Jones added.

In­spec­tor Ramkissoon, Sgt Nar­ine and oth­er of­fi­cers from the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion, PC Daniel and WPC Kheerai, vis­it­ed the scene.

The body was viewed by DMO Dr Orumwense, who or­dered it re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James, where an au­top­sy will be done.

Over 25 women killed since 2019 af­ter seek­ing po­lice help

In a state­ment Wednes­day, the In­ter­na­tion­al Women Re­source Net­work said be­tween 2019 to the present, over 25 women have been killed af­ter ap­ply­ing for a pro­tec­tion or­der.

The IR­WN not­ed, “Pro­tec­tion or­ders in their cur­rent form are a waste of time and do more harm than good for vic­tims.”

It added, “Re­cent re­search and ex­pe­ri­ence show that vic­tims are some­times mur­dered with­in days af­ter per­pe­tra­tors are served with pro­tec­tion or­ders.”

On June 21, 2018, the IWRN said it for­ward­ed cor­re­spon­dence to then At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi, re­quest­ing that amend­ments be made to “Part V – En­force­ment Or­ders” of the Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence Act (27 of 1999) but to date, noth­ing has been done.

“Those amend­ments are aimed at en­sur­ing that per­pe­tra­tors who breach pro­tec­tion or­ders feel the full brunt of the law start­ing with the first at­tempt of a breach. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, when vic­tims are un­der the um­brel­la of a pro­tec­tion or­der, there need to be state pro­to­cols in place to en­sure that they are prop­er­ly pro­tect­ed but again that is al­so ab­sent,” the IWRN said.

Ear­li­er this week, Abi­o­la Cud­joe and her 12-year-old son Levi were mur­dered at their La­choos Road, Pe­nal home.

On April 1, Amar De­o­bar­ran al­so mur­dered his wife Omatie af­ter she took out a pro­tec­tion or­der and filed for di­vorce be­cause he had fa­thered a child out­side their mar­riage.

SEE AL­SO:

Two more mur­ders in Diego Mar­tin, Paria

Sol­dier want­ed for mur­der of woman and son sur­ren­ders to po­lice

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