Police suspect murder after woman’s body found hanging from tree

Police have launched an investigation into the death of a woman whose body was found hanging from a tree at her Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke-Linden Highway home.
Dead is 48-year-old Edith Reuben, a housewife who was discovered sometime between 00:30h and 06:00h.
Investigators from Regional Division 4B (East Bank Demerara) are trying determine the circumstances which led to the woman’s demise.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Reuben lived with her reputed husband who told Police that they, along with several neighbours were consuming alcohol on Monday last. However, after some time the others left for their respective residences, except for a male.
The woman reportedly stayed on her verandah consuming alcohol while her husband and the other man retired to bed.
At about 04:00h the male guest awoke the woman’s reputed husband, to indicate to him that he was leaving their home. After acknowledging, the woman’s husband went back to sleep.
Two hours after, he awoke and made the gruesome discovery of his reputed wife’s motionless body hanging from a mango tree in the yard.
The body was taken down and escorted to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where she was pronounced dead.
A statement from the Police’s headquarters on Wednesday stated that so far, they “will only say that the positioning of the deceased’s body suggests she was murdered and her body placed at the scene.”
The male guest who overnighted at the couple’s home has not been located. Investigations are continuing as Police await a post-mortem. (G9)