By INEWS

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Alisha Narine, called “Tito”, a 36-year-old domestic worker of Vishal Singh and Sons Sawmill was on Sunday brutally murdered by her reputed husband and father of her two children.

The murderer, Ram Singh, a who also worked at the sawmill, committed suicide after the incident.

The incident occurred on Sunday morning at about 9:15h at the Crabwood Creek, Region Six sawmill where the couple had also been living.

While they had two children together, ages 4 and 8-years-old, and the woman had another child from a previous relationship.

At the time of the incident, only the 4-year-old lived with the couple.

This publication understands that Singh had recently been released from prison, where he had spent three months in jail for assaulting Narine.

On Sunday, just before he killed her, Singh reportedly told family members that he will take her life. It was reportedly not the first time he had made those threats.

Police say there was a heated argument between the couple before the incident and subsequently, the body of Narine was found in the sawmill yard with several chop wounds.

An overseas relative of the woman said Narine had video-called her via WhatsApp while seated under a coconut tree in the sawmill compound. During the call, the relative observed Singh approach from behind, holding a cutlass in his hand. He took the phone away and said: “Today, today I will murder her” – and the call ended, the relative related to the police.

Meanwhile, eyewitness Mahendra Deyanarayan said he was in the vicinity when he saw Singh in a chopping motion and initially thought he was chopping coconuts. He said it was when he heard Narine shouting for help that he realised what was happening.

He recalled that when he approached, he saw Singh running away with the cutlass in his hand. “The lady beg me to bring a bottle of water for [her]…by the time I bring the water and come back she gone – she passed away.”

Dayanarayan said there were several chops about Narine’’s body, one leg was almost severed.

Family members and the police were then contacted.

“We found him in the bush by the trench, he drink poison – he hollering ‘Ow, ow ow” after we take him and put him in the vehicle, the poison coming out of his mouth – it green green,” Dayanarayan recounted. Meanwhile, the now-dead woman’s daughter, Felisha Narine, said she received a call from neighbour informing her that Singh was assaulting her mother. She then took a taxi and went to the Sawmill Compound, and when she arrived, her mother’s body was lying motionless with what appeared to be chop wounds. “I just see she there, I never see her like that – bare blood. She get chop on her foot, her knee, her hand, all over. Her whole skin get blood,” the daughter told this publication.

Narine’s mother, Rosina Ali said her daughter was living in an abusive relationship. “He always just beats her and insults her and things,” she stated, added that her daughter would have made several reports to the police about domestic violence being perpetrated by her husband.

“He came out on lockup the other day. He beat she in the market,” the mother said, explaining that it was last month that Singh was released from prison after serving a 3-month sentence for his violent behaviour.

“I can’t take it… It’s very hard for me. I can’t bear to see my daughter like this. I barely see her face. How am I going to live without me pickney? It’s very hard for me,” the woman cried. Meanwhile, Narine’s daughter after learning that her stepfather had passed away, had no sympathy.

“I am glad that happened to him. My mother is the only person I had,” she said.

Police described Singh as someone known to law enforcement officers in the Port Mourant-Tain area, where he was arrested on several occasions for the use of illegal substances.