Woman shot dead

“She was the type of person who would go out of her way to help another and to know that we lost someone like that and in this manner...it is really hurtful,” Ali said. As he awaited the result of an autopsy on his wife’s body at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, Ali recounted to Newsday the circumstances which led to him losing his wife forever.

He said they were about to close the bar when in the blink of an eye he was face to face with armed criminals.

“It was about 12.15 am, when it happened,” Mustapha recalled. “We were about to check my big daughter who runs the bar. There were only a few people in the bar.

I also had a guy who cleans up for me, loading empty cases onto the van outside. While I was going to check on my daughter, I heard the guy calling me, so I told my wife to check on my daughter and I would go outside. But as soon as I pulled the door open, I saw a bandit standing in front of me, with a mask over his face.” Ali said he began to struggle with the bandit when another masked man attacked him from the side. He and the two masked men fought when his wife came out to see what was taking place.

A shot rang out. Mrs Ali was hit in the head.

She died on the spot.

The bandits fled the scene without taking anything