Mother of 3 kills abusive partner with knife used to attack her

A 28-year-old woman has allegedly killed the father of her three children following years of abuse.

The incident occurred around 16:15h on Sunday while the man, Anthony Pakanram, was abusing the woman.
According to the Police, the couple shared a relationship for several years during which the now dead man would usually abuse the woman.
On Saturday, the couple had a misunderstanding which resulted in the man physically assaulting the woman.
This caused the woman to move out of their shared home and return to her parents’ house at Old Road, Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
On Sunday, the man went to the Providence home, where he started to argue with his reputed wife. Police said during the encounter, he became angry and armed himself with a knife.
Despite the woman trying to flee, Pakanram cornered her and a scuffle ensued. The suspect then heard the victim groan and saw him bleeding from the neck. After they physically separated, Pakanram walked a short distance and then collapsed, Police said.
He was rushed to the Diamond hospital by family members, but died while receiving medical care.
When Guyana Times visited the area on Monday, family members did not want to speak with the media. However, a neighbour related to this publication what transpired. She said the man arrived at the house in the company of his family members.
“When they came, his daughter open the gate because is her father, she wouldn’t want him outside. When he came in, he went to the back and he sat on the step and he called for the wife, so when he called for the wife, she didn’t come out immediately. But she came out eventually and he started to beat she, so they end up in scuffle and with the scuffle now…,” the neighbour recalled.
The neighbour said she then heard screams coming from the house, and when she went to investigate, she saw the man lying in a pool of blood.
The woman related that the suspect informed her that the now dead man was accidentally stabbed to his neck during the confrontation.
“She turn back the knife to him, just so the knife don’t catch her, and he push her and she fell, and when she fell, he fell on her…he fell on the knife from what I get to understand,” the neighbour explained.
Moreover, the neighbour said shortly after the incident occurred, the now dead man’s brother went to the house.
“The brother came, that’s after the body done gone to the hospital and so, and he ask her ‘what you did, what you did?’ And he pull her by her hair and started to beat her and so.”
Contacted for an update on the matter on Monday afternoon, Regional Police Commander Mahendra Siwnarine said the woman remained in custody. He added that Police were conducting a “murder investigation”.