Mother of 7 brutally murdered by spouse months after escaping abusive relationship

…“he use treat my daughter bad and brutalise my daughter” – mother

By LaWanda McAllister

A mother of seven was on Wednesday hacked to death, months after she escaped an abusive relationship with her reputed husband of over eight years.
Dead is 33-year-old Fazila Ally, who was employed as a cleaner at the Annandale Primary School, located on the East Coast Demerara (ECD).
According to her family members, for months, Fazila fought to free herself from the grip of an abusive relationship. She endured years of violence, threats, and pleas for reconciliation.

On Wednesday, the 33-year-old mother was found brutally butchered inside the home she once shared with her reputed husband at Annandale Sand Reef, ECD. Her body laid in a pool of blood, dressed in only a pink towel and a red crop top, with three deep wounds, one to her hand, another to her forehead, and the most devastating, a gaping 17-centimeter slash across the back of her neck.
The suspect, identified as 52-year-old carpenter Bidraj Ganesh, also known as ‘Boy,’ had already fled the scene by the time police arrived. Faliza and Ganesh, had an eight-year-old son together.
Police on Wednesday in a statement said that just before the Christmas season, she made the decision to leave after enduring years of abuse. She had moved back to her mother’s home in Lusignan, ECD seeking safety and a fresh start. But according to her family, Ganesh refused to let go.
Faliza’s mother Babita Ally, told this publication on Wednesday that her daughter moved back home in November 2024.
“He use threat my daughter bad and brutalize my daughter. When she was living there, any hours in the night she would call we [Babita, Faliza’s father and family members] use to go over and get her. The last time he beat she and she decide to leave, she call and she said: ‘mommy me ain’t able with no more lash, he does beat me every time’. But she said that his sister tell she that she have to pay him $400,000 before she can leave. So, she get the $100,000 cash grant and she draw $300,000 Christmas time and she put it together and she pay him and she come home,” the woman explained.
“Since she come back, if her father is home, she would carry she to work and bring she back in the afternoon since the school is close to his house.”
Babita said that Ganesh continued to constantly harassing her daughter.
“Since she got the phone, it was share problems, he keep telling she about man this and that and that is a man buy the phone for her.”
The woman said even with that, her daughter’s abuser repeatedly begged her to return, but she stood firm. According to relatives, his desperation soon turned to threats.
On Wednesday, it was reported that Faliza went about her usual routine—she left for work at Annandale Primary School. Around midday, her mother, Babita, said she spoke to her over the phone.
Babita recalled minutes later, she received a call that her daughter was found dead in Ganesh’s home.
Blood everywhere
“When I reach there, all I see was blood everywhere. My daughter eye was open, her mouth was open. My daughter face was share blood. It was like if he did qurbani on meh daughter,” the inconsolable mother said.
Babita said among the most heartbreaking details of the murder is the fact that Fazila’s eight-year-old son, was there when it happened. The child, who had spent the previous night at his father’s house, told detectives that he had gone to his father’s sister’s home in the morning to prepare for school.
After school ended at noon, he said he walked over to his father’s house, only to be locked outside. He said saw his parents inside, packing belongings together. Then, suddenly, the door slammed shut. Ten minutes later, he said his father walked out carrying a chopper and a bag slung over his shoulder. He got into a blue car and drove away.
When the child finally managed to get inside, he said he found his mother lying motionless on the ground, blood seeping from a deep wound to her hand. The child then ran to his aunt’s house, screaming for help.
The police were summoned and by the time emergency responders arrived, Fazila was pronounced dead.
Her body was later taken to the Memorial Gardens Mortuary, where a post-mortem examination is pending.
Meanwhile, investigators launched a manhunt for Ganesh, who was on the run. He was later arrested. He reportedly attempted suicide and has since been hospitalised.
No help
As the police continues their investigation, Babita said she wanted to bring to the public’s attention that for years her daughter has been allegedly seeking help from the police, but to no avail.
“Several times he would beat the girl, broadside her with a cutlass. He burst a beer bottle in her head. He stabbed her in her face with a beer bottle, and he bore her in her foot. We went to Vigilance police station, they took no report, went to Annadale outpost and they take no report. I don’t know why they were not taking our report. They would put us to sit down and don’t look after us… when we asked them, they said they not getting into man and woman story,” the woman said
“He gave my daughter nothing, and if she he gave she $5000, she have to give him back $10,000. Every time we go to the station, my daughter use to say ‘mommy, I coming here for help, and them not helping me, but when he kill me, all of them will come. So as my daughter said, that is exactly what happen. About 40 of them come to remove her body. My daughter was determined this time not to go back. She said she will never go back and that is why he was vex,” the tearful woman said.
“The other day while she was at school, he ran in the school yard to her and the guard lady told he can’t go in the yard. My daughter was a nice person. She doesn’t tell nobody anything, and she doesn’t make no fight. But now she dead police coming”.
Babita said that even on the day when her daughter’s body was been removed from the scene, she openly told that police officers that now that her daughter was dead, they finally arrived to offer assistance.
As Ally’s family prepares to bury her, they are calling for justice.
When Guyana Times arrived at the scene, neighbours said they heard no screams or signs of a struggle, only the victim’s young son calling out for his aunt.