A 45-year-old woman was beaten to death and her common-law husband left nursing injuries after they were both attacked while walking in the Barrackpore district over the weeked.
Reshma Peters, of Wilson Road in Barrackpore, was found dead on Saturday around 10 am at the roadside at Mohess Road with injuries to the head, hip and right leg.
Reports state that she and her common-law husband, Ravi Samlal, 36, were walking along Mohess Road Extension around 9.30 pm on August 24 when a car pulled up alongside them.
A man got out and chopped Samlal, leaving him unconscious.
He later regained consciousness, but neither Peters nor the attacker was there. He managed to walk about half a mile and alerted a relative, who called the police.
Up to August 25, Samlal was at the San Fernando General Hospital.
Sgt Elvin and other police from the Homicide Bureau of Investigation, Region Three,