Corentyne farmer stabs spouse to death and attempts suicide
A 28-year-old mother of four is dead after being stabbed by her former common law partner, a farmer of Limlair Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
Dead is Tovonie Ale[ce Simmons, of Lot 10 Second Street, Limlair, Berbice. Her former partner who is currently hospitalized at the Port Mourant Hospital after he committed the brazen act has been identified as Imran Lyte, called µJabbar’, 30, also from Limlair. He attempted suicide. Reports from the police are that shortly before midnight Simmons was at home with her mother Jacquelyn Henry, 55, a vendor, when Lyte arrived to discuss an issue that had occurred on Sunday, between he and his e[ brother-in-law. It was during the discussion about the issue that an argument erupted between Lyte and Simmons, who reportedly whipped out a knife from his left side pants waist and dealt several stabs to the mother of four. In her bid to escape, she ran towards the verandah and plunged over. She managed to get up from the fall and at that point began running again. The suspect ran after her and slit her throat. He subsequently escaped in an easterly direction towards the backlands. Simmons was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. At the home, neighbours, relatives and friends were gathered as the news circulated that yet another woman was murdered at the hands of a man that she once shared a relationship with, the father of her children.
The blood soaked clothing was tucked away in a bucket while the detective was gathering information from the mother of the deceased young woman. Simmons’s devastated mother e[plained that Lyte’s sister brought him to their home to resolve an issue that took place on Sunday. “They (Simmons and Lyte) come and they talk over their business and they were sitting on the table and me and Rhonda (the suspect’s sister) were sitting here in the living room. Couple minutes after, he grab she and she scream. :hen me look, she try fuh Mump on top of me, from the chair, suh me try fuh block he and he fire at me. “She run and go pon the verandah and me run behind she and me tek a chair and brace he (Lyte) and then she Mump over the verandah and we tell she µrun, run’,” Henry detailed. According to her, Lyte managed to free himself from her and ran after her daughter who was already on the street, some distance away, “and he ketch she and slit she throat and get away.” The 55-yearold woman disclosed that Lyte left her daughter and their four children sometime in December to live with another woman, a neighbor. This she said was one of the maMor problems that sparked arguments between the deceased and the suspect.
(Kaieteurnews)