Murdered D’Urban St guard shared abusive past with suspect

Donna Thomas

Donna Thomas, whose bloody corpse was found at her D’Urban Street home on Saturday, is believed to have been killed by an abusive partner over the money she collected hours before.

Thomas, 49, a security guard from Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara, was found lying in a pool of blood with several stab wounds in her small apartment at Lot 6-9 D’Urban Street and Cross streets, Werk-en-Rust. The discovery was made by a co-worker, who visited the house in search of the woman after she had failed to appear at work on Friday.

At Thomas’s home on Sunday, her landlord, Randolph Yaw, said he was aware of her abusive past with the suspect, who is still being sought by police. According to him, it was the abuse that