(Trinidad Express) – The protective order she had against a man who refused to let go recently expired, and he returned for a second chance.
But attorney-at-law Margaret Shanta Parsad, 52, refused to reunite with the man she had feared for many years, police say.

He slipped into her burglar-proof home while she was out jogging on Monday and waited for her to return, police believe. As she walked into her living room, the man sliced her throat with a chopper.

Businessman Satnarine Maharaj, 49, then went into a bedroom and drank a deadly potion. Police believe it was a concoction of Gramoxone and paraquat.
The murder-suicide occurred at Parsad’s Gordon Street, San Fernando home. Her office is located at the front of the building, which is within sight of the Southern Division Police Headquarters and the courts in which she practised.

Dwain Douglas, a clerk at Parsad’s office, arrived for work around 7.30 am and found the front door locked, police said. He called his employer several times but she never answered. Douglas then contacted the police, who broke a glass pane to enter the front door. The fully clothed bodies were found in separate rooms.

Maharaj’s Mitsubishi L200 van was parked in the Guardian Life of the Caribbean Limited’s parking lot two buildings away. A Guardian Life employee said the van had been parked there since Saturday.