Mahaica mother of 2 chopped to death by abusive husband

– suspect later died by suicide

A 29-year-old mother of two, Thagewante Motie, also known as Kavita of Supply Squatting Area, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was brutally chopped to death by her reputed husband during an argument.
The chopping incident took place on Wednesday last but the sales representative died on Saturday while receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

The perpetrator, 26-year-old Uram Doorbassa, also known as ‘Anil’ consumed a poisonous substance after committing the act and succumbed on Friday
The fatal incident
According to police, the violent altercation occurred around 21:00h on Wednesday at the couple’s home during an argument during which the mother of two was attacked by the perpetrator who was armed with a cutlass.
She was chopped several times in her neck and back. He later fled the scene but reportedly consumed poison before he was apprehended.
Motie’s mother, Meena Paul recounted that her daughter lived at the couple’s Supply residence with their two children—a one-year-old and a four-year-old—as well as her sister’s family. The couple has been together for the past five years. Paul said she was driving home from the Linden-Soesdyke Highway when she received a call informing her of the attack.

“My big daughter called me and told me, to come now that Kavita’s husband chopped her up. I drove straight to Mahaicony Hospital. I called my son and the doctor on my way and gave them her name. When I reached, I did the paperwork, and they took her to Georgetown Public Hospital,” Paul recounted.
The woman told the Guyana Times that upon arriving at the Georgetown Public Hospital, doctors informed the family that Motie was in a critical state, with injuries so severe that she would never have been able to walk again.
“She had two wounds—one on her right side where he chopped out her collarbone and one at the back of her neck that damaged her spinal cord. That’s the one that damaged her whole body,” her mother said tearfully.

Years of abuse
Paul revealed that Motie had endured an abusive five-year relationship with Doorbassa, during which she frequently went to her mother’s home in Linden after being beaten, only to reconcile with him later. Despite her family’s pleas to leave him for good, Motie continued to return.
“She used to take the licks and stay with him. I told her that was dangerous because people who you leave and go back to, always hold that malice against you. However, last month, I begged her to leave him. I told her to come with me and start fresh. I told her to come and rare some chickens and sell them so that she would not have to work with anybody, but she said she’d move next year. But he killed her before she could,” Paul said.
The abuse, according to Paul, extended to the day of the attack. Doorbassa allegedly left their four-year-old child with his mother before arming himself with a cutlass which he used to attack Motie. At the time of the incident, their one-year-old was sleeping nearby.

Witness accounts
The dead woman’s mother also revealed that Motie’s 16-year-old brother, who witnessed the attack, said he confronted Doorbassa when he saw him rushing into the yard with a cutlass.
“My son told me he asked him where he was going with the cutlass, hoping he wasn’t going to broadside his sister with it. But he fired a chop at him, and it hit the gate, and my son ran. He said he turned back and saw him chop his sister. She fell to the ground, and when he went back to check on her, he found her in a pool of blood.”
Paul described her daughter as a quiet and dependable individual, who was the backbone of their family.
“Anything I needed, I could call her. Now I don’t know who I will call. Before her surgery, she told me, ‘Mommy, I will not make it out of this surgery. Please take care of my children.’”
The aggrieved mother related that the pain of losing her daughter is compounded by the memory of losing her 17-year-old daughter to suicide just a few years ago.
“This is very painful to lose my child. I don’t want any mother to go through this. This is very painful. He didn’t show her any mercy. He didn’t think of her children. He didn’t even think that they would need their mother. He didn’t think that when killed her there would be nobody to take care of them. But when he finished, he decided to drink poison”
As Paul mourns her daughter, she says that she is determined to provide a better future for her grandchildren.
“Her life is gone and can never be replaced, but I will take care of her children. I don’t want them to grow apart. They deserve a better life,” she said. (LaWanda McAllister)