Manhunt for Guyanese

On Sunday at about 7 pm, Khan-Gobin of Naparima Mayaro Road in Rio Claro was found on the floor of her bedroom with chop wounds to her neck. The woman’s nine-year-old nephew Aseem Mohammed made the gruesome discovery.

Relatives of the woman squeezed the boy through some louvres after she failed to pick up her son from the home of her mother and several calls to her cellphone went unanswered. The murder took place a stone’s throw away from the Rio Claro Police Station. Police believe Khan-Gobin might have been killed on Saturday night. She was still dressed in her work clothes.

Relatives later discovered all the electrical wires in the ceiling were cut.

Neighbours reported hearing a loud argument in the house on Saturday evening. Three years ago, Khan met the Guyanese man with whom she had a son, two-year-old David Benjamin Gobin.

Her grieving sister Leela Khan, 28, yesterday said she found it strange when a male relative called her to say Khan-Gobin had gone to a party and for her (Leela) to take care of young David. “Knowing that my sister does not party and never stays away from her son for too long, I began to worry,” Khan said. Leela added that her sister wanted out of the relationship after learning that the man was married in Guyana and had a child. “It is her house and she had asked him to leave because she could not take anymore licks and the threats on her life. The matter was so bad that she reported it twice to the police but we were told that we should call Immigration Office instead of police,” Khan said.

“The police had not been really much help in this matter — my sister never received the protection she needed,” Khan said.

The dead woman’s brother Ganesh however said his sister was once advised by police to seek a restraining order. “But she didn’t want to do it for fear the situation could get worse.”

Relatives recalled that on Saturday morning, Khan-Gobin dropped off her son at her mother’s home a short distance away before going to work.

She did some Christmas shopping in Princes Town before returning home. “It appears as though he was in the house waiting for her,” Ganesh said. When contacted yesterday, a senior police officer told Newsday he was unaware of any reports of domestic violence made against the suspect by Khan-Gobin. Investigations are continuing.