Sascha Wil­son

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the dis­cov­er­ies of a cou­ple’s de­com­pos­ing bod­ies at their New Grant home this evening.

They have been iden­ti­fied as Michael De­onar­ine and his com­mon-law wife Crys­tal Ja­groop, 25, of Gan­garam Trace, Broth­ers Road.

De­onar­ine’s un­cle Amar Du­lars­ingh told re­porters that a neigh­bour was walk­ing home from work when he got a foul stench em­a­nat­ing from the cou­ple’s home which is close to the road.

The neigh­bour saw flies com­ing from an open win­dow of the house and as he got clos­er the stench got worse.

Du­lars­ingh said af­ter the neigh­bour called him he went to the cou­ple’s home and al­so got the pu­trid scent. He then called the Table­land po­lice.

Sad mother Rosemarie Jagroop hugs a police officer as she weeps for her daughter Crystal Jagroop who decomposing body was found with he common law husband Michael Deonarine at their New Grant home last evening. ( SEE PAGE 6)

RISHI RAGOONATH

The po­lice broke down the front door be­cause it was locked and went in­side. He said De­onar­ine was naked on the bed while Ja­groop was on the ground clad on­ly in a top. There were wounds on their bod­ies.

Asked whether the po­lice sus­pect mur­der/sui­cide, he said, “They can’t say as yet but we be­lieve so.”

He said last week the cou­ple vis­it­ed his home and had some­thing to eat. They had been to­geth­er for just over a year, he said. Ja­groop had a young daugh­ter from a pre­vi­ous re­la­tion­ship but the child was by a rel­a­tive. Of­fi­cers of the Table­land Po­lice and the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.