Elderly woman stabbed, chopped to death in ECD apartment

The body of an elderly woman was on Thursday discovered in the bottom flat of a two-storey wooden building at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

The body has since been identified as that of 87-year-old Agnes Dillon of Lot 32 Mon Repos North, ECD, who reportedly had lived alone.
When contacted, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed that the woman’s body bore several injuries, and he said detectives were scoping the area for any information that would be helpful to the investigation.
However, based on information received, the now dead woman had been renting the bottom flat of the building, owned by another pensioner, who occupied the upper flat of the house. The victim had last been seen washing clothes on Wednesday at about 17:00h. On Thursday, the landlady did not see the victim, and as such called out to her, but there was no answer. As such, she contacted another neighbour and asked him to check on Dillon.
Upon checking, the neighbour found the main door reportedly secured from the inside. He, too, called out to the elderly woman, but to no avail. Suspecting something was amiss, he went to the woman’s bedroom window and managed to get it open.
Upon looking into the bedroom, he saw her lying in a motionless state on the bed. He returned to the main door, which he prised open and entered the house. A closer inspection revealed that the woman was lying in a pool of blood. Without hesitation, he contacted the Beterverwagting Police Station and related what he had seen.
Police ranks responded and confirmed that the woman’s body bore several stab wounds to her left and right upper chest, and chops to her right hand and right-side face. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The crime scene was processed, and a mud print of a shoe was seen on the floor next to a window located on the northern side of the bedroom. In addition, a brown handle knife with bloodstains was found next to the said window.
Dillon’s body has been taken to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Parlour to await a post mortem.