Hope Estate woman stabbed to death by reputed husband

Aneeza Ishmael

Almost on the eve of International Women’s Day a 26-year-old woman died yesterday morning after she was brutally stabbed by her common-law husband, who survived despite turning the knife on himself as well as consuming a poisonous substance and has been hospitalised under police guard.

Dead is Aneeza Ishmael, a housewife of Hope Estate, East Coast Demerara.

According to a police press release, Ishmael lived with Ricardo Kattow, a fisherman, but they had ongoing domestic issues. He would accuse her of being unfaithful.