A 51-year-old woman is now dead after reportedly setting herself and her home at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on fire on Wednesday.
The dead woman is 51-year-old Nichola Jacobs, a former employee of Bakewell Bakery.
What has led Jacobs to commit this act remains sketchy, but according to information gathered, the mother of nine was reportedly having relationship issues.
A family member told Guyana Times that the woman might have locked herself in the house and set it on fire. The late Nichola Jacobs had reportedly left her martial home about five years ago, and had been having a relationship with another man up to the time of her demise.
Dead: Nicola Jacobs
On Tuesday, the woman had visited her legally married husband’s home and had taken her identification card and $8000, and asked him to keep them.
The family member said the woman’s husband had questioned her about the relationship she was having with her lover, but she had left without responding.
“She went and live with this other man, and he [the legal husband] kept telling her to come home, but she did not go”, they said.
This publication was further informed that Jacobs’s lover was younger than her, and that he wanted to end the relationship, which might have caused her to commit the act.
While this is just mere speculation, the family is hoping that Police investigations would ascertain what might have led to the woman’s demise.
Meanwhile, a statement from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) revealed that the woman had last been seen alive at around 11:00h on Wednesday. Police, however, said that based on their investigations, the deceased woman had lived alone in the house.
Following reports of the fire, a tender from the Melanie Fire Service was deployed to the scene, and it put out the fire. The Fire Service said that based on their investigations, the building was not affixed with electricity.
The woman’s partially charred remains were later found among the debris. The woman’s remains were escorted to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home to await a post mortem. An investigation is underway.
