Rel­a­tives of St James woman who was beat­en to death dur­ing a home in­va­sion be­lieve she was fol­lowed to her home by her killers.

The killers ran­sacked Gem­ma Khan’s Mu­cu­rapo Road home steal­ing a tele­vi­sion set and her ve­hi­cle.

An au­top­sy done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James on Tues­day con­firmed that the woman died from blunt force trau­ma. There were sev­er­al in­juries to her face.

A rel­a­tive, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, said Khan’s mur­der has rocked the fam­i­ly as they have no clue whether or not there were oth­er mo­tives apart from the rob­bery.

“She was a very love­ly per­son with a great per­son­al­i­ty. We are shocked to hear that her life was snuffed out in such a grue­some man­ner,” a rel­a­tive said.

Guardian Me­dia was told that rel­a­tives are a bit baf­fled as to how the door to Khan’s home was locked when they ar­rived. They be­lieve it was locked from the out­side by her killer or killers as they left the scene.

Khan would have cel­e­brat­ed her 74th birth­day next month.

One of her broth­ers, who re­sides in To­ba­go, is hop­ing for swift jus­tice.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at around 10 am on Mon­day, one of Khan’s daugh­ters went to her home to check on her and found the door locked.

With the as­sis­tance of neigh­bours, the door was bro­ken down and they made the hor­rif­ic dis­cov­ery of Khan’s body cov­ered un­der a pile of clothes.

Rel­a­tives said they tried to con­tact Khan over the week­end but got no re­sponse which prompt­ed them to vis­it the home.

Khan was buried un­der Mus­lim rites at the Nur-E-Is­lam Masjid in El So­cor­ro on Tues­day.

Po­lice are ask­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion to con­tact them at 555 or 999 or 800 TIPS.