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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Pensioner killed in home invasion

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Un­aware that her hus­band had been stabbed to death by ban­dits, a wound­ed Dol­ly Sook­nanan sat on the floor next to his body wait­ing for him to awake from his sleep.Po­lice said Sook­nanan, 86, was in a state of shock af­ter ban­dits broke in­to their Spring Trace, Siparia home, some­time be­tween Sat­ur­day night and Sun­day morn­ing and stabbed both she and her hus­band, Balka­ran Dook­ie, 76, be­fore ran­sack­ing the house.

Up to yes­ter­day she was be­ing kept un­der po­lice pro­tec­tion while un­der­go­ing med­ical treat­ment.Dook­ie's son, Mukesh, who lives a few hous­es away, said he was work­ing at Quar­ry Vil­lage, when around 11.30 am his wife called and said the neigh­bour had not seen his fa­ther and step­moth­er for the morn­ing.

Know­ing that the el­der­ly cou­ple rou­tine­ly sit in their porch for break­fast every morn­ing, he said he im­me­di­ate­ly went to check on them.

"I went by the house and I called out 'mam­my' and she an­swered and said come in­side and see if I could wake up the old man, she don't know what wrong with him. I went in­side the liv­ing room and I saw him slumped in a re­clin­er with a stab to his chest. He was al­ready dead and she had blood on her face and like she got stabbed on her back and chest too. I went out­side and called 999 and the po­lice came," Mukesh said.

He said when he asked Sook­nanan what hap­pened, she first replied "It was a la­dy and two men," but lat­er on, she said some­one just dropped him (Dook­ie) there. Al­though the house was ran­sacked, Mukesh nor the po­lice were able to say whether any­thing was stolen. Mukesh said his fa­ther had no quar­rels with any­one, adding that Dook­ie lived with Sook­nanan for the past three years.

Con­fused over the killing, he said even if ban­dits want­ed mon­ey they could have got it eas­i­ly from two el­der­ly peo­ple."Yes­ter­day morn­ing I shaved his head be­cause to­mor­row was their big day. They had to col­lect pen­sion so both of them would have gone to do that."


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