De Hoop man in custody as cops probe wife’s death; suicide explanation suspicious

Police tape bars the stairs and doors of the house in which Vanessa Seeram’s body was found

Police Commissioner (ag) Leroy Brumell described the circumstances surrounding the death of a 31-year-old mother of three as suspicious even as the suspect in the woman’s demise remained in police custody up to late yesterday afternoon.

Vanessa Seeram’s lifeless body was discovered by her husband, a truck driver, in their De Hoop, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home with a belt tied tightly around her neck around 23:00hrs on Saturday.

The woman’s husband, who has since been taken into custody by police, had claimed that that Seeram likely took her own life as a result of a recent dispute between the two. According to their 15-year-old son, his father said that on returning home from