Police could have prevented slaughter of Zeelugt children – mother

Kimberly Houston

Nazalena Natasha Houston, the lone survivor of the brutal attack by her husband that left her two children dead, yesterday said police could have prevented the tragedy by acting on a report she made to them the day before.

In addition to her children, Houston, 21, lost her right hand and the fingers on her left hand after her husband, Richard Lord, launched the cutlass attack on her and their two children, five-year-old Kimberly Houston and two-year-old Ahmad Lord.

Speaking from her hospital bed yesterday, Houston said that she had gone to a probation officer in Pouderoyen the same day of the attack and that while heading home with the children, Lord forced her into