Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Foren­sic pathol­o­gist Dr Valery Alexan­drov be­lieves Don­na George was killed sud­den­ly and had no time to ward off her at­tack­er. Alexan­drov, who per­formed an au­top­sy, said George, 48, of Preau Vil­lage, St Mary's, Moru­ga, died from sev­er­al chop wounds to the neck. The chops, which stretched from one ear lobe to the oth­er, were deep enough to reach the spine. There were no fur­ther marks of vi­o­lence on George's body to sug­gest she had time to put up a strug­gle. Alexan­drov said it was pos­si­ble that George was killed while she slept. The carotid ar­ter­ies which chan­nel blood to the brain were sev­ered and there was a chop wound on George's shoul­der.

Mean­while, a 49-year-old sus­pect held in con­nec­tion with her mur­der, re­mained in po­lice cus­tody last night. The sus­pect sur­ren­dered to po­lice around 7 am on Wednes­day. Af­ter be­ing chopped, George's body was cov­ered with a sheet and her at­tack­er sat in a ham­mock out­side the house, wait­ing for the po­lice to ar­rive. George's sis­ter, Deb­bie James, be­lieves the mur­der was pre­med­i­tat­ed. She said last week Sun­day, a man locked George in­side the house and put a knife to her throat. George lat­er left the house and went to the near­by vil­lage of La Rufin to stay with James. How­ev­er, she re­turned home a few days lat­er. Fu­ner­al arrange­ments for the mur­dered woman are still be­ing fi­nalised. Po­lice said the sus­pect would be charged with mur­der.