Murdered La Grange businesswoman was strangled to death – autopsy

…16-year-old arrested

An autopsy performed on the remains of 85-year-old Bibi Nasmonisha Ramjit, whose body was found in her Old Road, La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home, proved that she was strangled to death.
The post-mortem was conducted by Government Pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh, who gave the cause of death as “asphyxiation due to manual strangulation”.
The Police have arrested a teenager on Tuesday evening in connection with the gruesome murder. This was confirmed by the Force’s Public Relations Officer, Royston Andries-Junor.
The elderly businesswoman, who lived alone, was found gagged and murdered on Sunday evening. Her home at the time was reportedly ransacked, thus leading investigators to believe that she was murdered during the commission of a robbery. The now dead woman’s children are all overseas and would visit from time to time.
It was reported that about four months ago, the now dead woman, who operated a grocery shop, was terrorised, assaulted and robbed by several men who invaded her home. They escaped with a large sum of money.
According to a family member, Ramjit did not make a report to the Police, since she was fearful that the robbers would return. One month after that incident, Ramjit was again robbed while she was sleeping in her hammock. It is believed that the same group of men who committed the first robbery entered her home and removed an undisclosed sum of money, which had been kept in one of the bedrooms of the house.
On the day Ramjit was murdered, one of her customers had gone to pay some money that he owed her, but after calling out several times and receiving no response, he thought something was amiss since both the doors to her shop and house were opened. As such, he went into the house where he made the horrific discovery. He reportedly raised an alarm and the Police were contacted.