Dead are Police Constable Kumbarran Singh, 25, and Latchmini Thombarin, 31, of Lot 279 Hampshire Squatting Area, Corentyne.

Relatives of the married mother of three said she had told a friend of her former lover she wanted to end the relationship.

Her sister Babita Bissoon said a friend of the cop had visited their home Saturday telling Latchmini that Singh wanted to see her.

But her response was that she did not want to see him any more and he should live his life and let her live hers, the sister said yesterday.

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Bissoon said that shortly after, she saw the Policeman, who was stationed at the Rose Hall Police outpost a mile away, nearing the house on a bicycle.

She said as she alerted her sister, he scaled the four-foot high fence around the yard and chased after Latchmini up the front stairway of the house.

Bissoon said she tried to pursue him but became afraid after the cop placed the revolver he had to her chest.

After overcoming the shock seconds later, she said she continued up the stairs to the house, but Singh was inside jamming the front door to prevent her entering.

She said she, however, managed to push the door open enough to see her sister holding on to the barrel of the gun before it went off twice.

“I ran outside and went to my home next door. But before I could have called the police another two shots rang out”, she related, sobbing.

Bissoon said she rushed back to the house and in the living room saw her sibling lying in a pool of blood with wounds to her temple and stomach, while Singh had a shot wound on his head.

Police said the two were pronounced dead on arrival at the Port Mourant Hospital.

Marie Thombarin, mother of the slain woman, told the Guyana Chronicle she had begged the cop not to hurt her daughter but her pleas fell on deaf ears.

Latchmini leaves to mourn her husband Andrew Verasammy, and three children, Keisha, 11, Ricardo, 9, and Angelina, 5.

The older children and their father reside in the United States and are expected in the country later this week, relatives said.

Monday, December 04, 2006