Georgetown: A Cuban national, Joel Rodriguez, who allegedly butchered his lover and her 11-year-old daughter at their Princes Street, Lodge home was arrested Monday.
Dead is investigating the murders of Tara Krishnaran, 34, a sales girl and her 11-year-old daughter, Larissa Singh.
The police said that the woman was discovered with a wound to the back of the head, left side temple and left side of the face. Her daughter, however, had a wound, about six inches in length, to her neck and what appeared to be blood on her private parts. The suspected murder weapons – a blood stained hammer and knife – were also retrieved. The bodies were taken to the Lyken’s Funeral Home, awaiting post-mortem.
According to the police report, the woman’s father said that the couple had an argument on Christmas Day and since such arguments were common, he went to bed. On Boxing day, he did not check on them as he thought the woman went to work and took her daughter along with her.
Later that night, however, the elderly man realised that he was locked inside the house and went into the room of the victims when he made the gruesome discovery; his granddaughter was lying on the ground and his daughter was lying on the bed.
Reports indicate that the man would accompany Krishnaran to family functions but relatives noted that he appeared to be a jealous individual. “We would be together (at a family function) and a boy could walk in, even if it was my brothers… if they just looked at her, he would get angry about it,” the relative said. Police investigations into the double murder are ongoing.
Police noted that the murders occurred sometime between 20:00hrs on Christmas Day and 21:00hrs on Boxing Day. After receiving the report of the murders on Saturday night, investigators visited the scene and discovered the mother and daughter in a bedroom.
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