(Trinidad Express) A 64-year-old Barrackpore mother was bludgeoned to death in bed on Sunday while her visually impaired husband slept in the downstairs section of their home. Leela Deonarinesingh, a mother of two, of Oli Mohammed Trace, Rochard Road, was found naked with her head bashed in.
Within hours, police detained a man in his 20s after video footage from a closed circuit television camera located at a nearby business place showed the suspect sneaking into the property of the Deonarinesingh family.
The suspect recently began living and working in a car wash located near the Deonarinesingh family home. Deonarinesingh’s husband, Deodath Deonarinesingh, 69, discovered her body at around 9.15 a.m. yesterday.
The man told police he went in search of his wife as he had not heard from her yesterday morning.
The husband said he walked into the bedroom and felt his way to the bed, and touched her cold body.
Deonarinesingh told the Express: “I thought she went to the market and I thought after an hour or two she would come back. I was listening to the radio, but I was wondering why she was taking so long. I went upstairs to see if she fell back asleep. I went to the bed, and I put my hand out to feel for her, but I felt a coldness. I started bawling and calling the neighbours”. Neighbour Kimraj Ramkissoon, 62, ran over to the house and saw Deonarinesingh’s body covered in blood. The drawers of her dresser had been ransacked.
