Deadly Bachelors Adventure fire ruled as arson – GFS

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has confirmed that the fire that claimed the life of 51-year-old Nicola Marshall Jacobs at Bachelors Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD), on Wednesday was an act of arson.
According to the Police, the fire started at about 13:00h, and based on their investigations, the woman had lived alone in the house. She was last seen alive at about 11:00h.

When the fire ensued, ranks of the Melanie Fire Service arrived at the scene and extinguished the blaze. According to the Fire Service, the building was not affixed with electricity nor was the building insured.
The woman’s partially charred remains were later found among the debris.
Initially, a family member had told Guyana Times that they were of the belief that the woman might have locked herself in the house and set it on fire.
The late Nichola Marshall Jacobs had reportedly left her martial home about five years ago, and had been having a relationship with another man, with whom she lived with up until the time of her demise.
The couple was renting the property that was owned by one Norma Garnette.
The family member said that on Tuesday, Jacobs had allegedly visited her legally married husband’s home and had taken her identification card and $8000, and asked him to keep them.
The woman’s husband reportedly questioned her about the relationship she was having with her lover, but she had left without responding.
This publication was further informed that Jacobs’s lover wanted to end the relationship. It is suspected that this might have prompted the woman to commit the act.
In a report from the Guyana Fire Service a day later, it was confirmed that the fire was indeed an act of arson. However, the Fire Service was unable to say who committed the malicious setting. The family is now baffled as to if the fire was indeed set by Jacobs, or if someone else committed the act. (G9)