A murder most brutal

This after an autopsy which Alexandrov conducted yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre in St James showed that the 62-yearold woman was chopped and stabbed so brutally that her face is barely recognisable.

“This woman was killed in a most brutal manner,” Dr Alexandrov said as he revealed she was stabbed at least 20 times and chopped on her face and head so badly that bone chips from her skull were embedded deep in her brain. Defensive wounds to the woman’s hand left the limbs barely attached to her arms.

Dr Alexandrov said she was chopped at least ten times to her head and face. Some of the stabs, from a kitchen knife, were so forceful that the blade penetrated ten inches into her stomach.

On Friday last, Periana was murdered in her apartment home in Caroni. A man whom she lived with and who is also in his 60s, confessed to a taxi driver that he had committed murder, while the driver was transporting the man from the apartment on Friday.

The killer remains at large. Yesterday, Periana’s relatives chastised her neighbours who in an earlier interview with Newsday, said they would hear the woman screaming regularly from inside the apartment as she was apparently being physically abused by the man who would eventually murder her. Periana was originally from Guyana.

“Those tenants knew what was going on. They heard a woman bawling and did nothing. No one called the police. No one lifted a finger to help her,” cried a relative who did not want to give her name. “The police are also lackadaisical in that they have not been able to arrest this man as yet.” The relative insisted that no one in Periana’s family knew of her abuse at the hands of the man. “If we knew, I would have taken her out of that apartment myself. But no one in the family knew she was being abused. She never told us about this,” the relative said.