MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: Lata Indredeo (left), called ‘Cheryl’, ‘Teacher’, ‘Lata’ and ‘Miss’, with her now deceased daughter, Liloutie Seeram, called ‘Pinky’

Dead is 31-year-old Liloutie Seeram, alias Pinky, who suffered years of domestic abuse at the hands of her common-law husband, Rooplall Boodhoo, called ‘Kelly’. The injured mother’s name has been given as  Lata Inderdeo, called ‘Cheryl’.
According to Ramnarine Seeram,  he last spoke to his granddaughter shortly after 20:00h on Friday evening when she telephoned to find out how he was doing.
At the time, the distraught man said, he was looking at a religious programme on television.
After retiring to bed, he said, he was awakened by one of the suspect’s relatives who asked that he go to the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary to identify his granddaughter ‘s body.
Seeram said he did not hearken to the request as he did not believe the story. He, however, had a change of heart when a member of his granddaughter’s church sought him out whilst crying uncontrollably.
“She did not say anything, although I questioned her,” Seeram said, adding: “But my next door neighbour came forward, held my hand whilst saying: ‘He chop she up; she nah get finger; he chop she up in she head.’”
According to Seeram, his granddaughter endured a violent relationship, and whilst the couple lived with him, “was constant torment.”
At the couple’s home, blood stains could be seen leading from their bedroom all the way to the front of the yard.
The suspect’s sister-in-law, who gave her name only as Angalie, said that around  02:00h, her husband returned home breathless, saying: “Kelly [his brother ]chop  up Pinky, an’ he gone wid a rope an’ a cutlass saying he gon hang he’self.”
Angalie, who lives with her husband a street away from where the murder occurred, said that on arrival at the scene, she saw a badly-wounded ‘Pinky’ lying in a “crumpled position” in a corner of the bedroom, and bleeding profusely. But in spite of injuries,  Angalie said, she was still alive.  “She was alive; her eyes were slightly opened, and she was breathing softly.”
Meanwhile, a neighbour of the slain woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, recalled hearing shouting coming from the direction of the couple’s house shortly after 01:30h but dismissed them, as that was a regular feature of the pair.
She said that shortly after hearing the screams, the suspect was observed “going up and down” the front stairs.
“During that period,” she said, “I heard his brother say: ‘Oh God, Kelly, look wha’ you do.’ Afterwards, a car enter their driveway and me observe somebody being lifted into the vehicle.”
The neighbour said she would later learn the seriousness of the matter, when she heard that ‘Pinky’ was dead and ‘Kelly’ missing.