A woman who always goes to the police station to force the lawmen to release her husband every time he is arrested for beating her, would no longer be around to save her abuser.

That is because, this time, a severe beating in her head with a hammer from the same man has now resulted in her death.

The woman, 43-year-old Sabita Bhagwandai Shanarine, a mother of one surviving child, and a domestic worker of Lot 2 Line Path E, Corentyne, Berbice, took her last breath yesterday at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, where she was admitted after she was reportedly beaten by Manoj, her husband.

The Guyana Guardian understands that Manoj allegedly used a hammer and dealt his wife several lashes to the head, which resulted in the cracking of her skull.

Doctors had tried vehemently over several days to save her life, but the severity of the injuries to her brain, was definitely beyond medical rescue.

In the end, death came to her slow, but painful.

According to information reaching this Publication, the couple had been living in the area since 1995, and from when Sabita was a bouncing 20-year-old young woman.

But it only took a few weeks before the young woman began to face a life of abuse, in which she continued to stay in, for almost 23 more years.

No one is sure why she stayed in the relationship, which had sent her to the hospital for at least half a dozen times in the past. What was sure was her inclination to always forgive her husband every time he tells her that he was sorry.

Relatives claimed that Sabita always believed that her abusive husband would change after each beating. So she stuck with him, waiting for that change.

One neighbor who lives in the community as long as the couple, and whose wife once worked with the now dead woman, related that Sabita and her husband would often quarrel and fight. But no one would intervene, because it is husband and wife story.

According to the neighbor, most times it was Manoj (the husband) who would always start beating the woman every time he returns home from imbibing alcohol with his friends.

The beating would also occur several times a week.

One man was quick to point out that whenever the abuse became too severe, the woman would run over to neighbours to be rescued. But violent threats from her husband would force her to go back, which would often result in another round of beating.

Several other neighbours confirmed that Manoj was frequently arrested by police after abusing his wife, who would file a report, or after hospital officials notify the cops.

However, before charges could be laid, it was Sabita who would visit the police station and plead for her husband to return home.

It is understood that the man had made it clear to her that if she had ever caused him to end up at the courthouse and be sent to prison, he would come back and kill her after he was released.

Hence, neighbours are assuming that the woman had also taken that threat seriously, and therefore did all that was within her power to ensure that the man was not jailed for abusing her.

A close friend of the dead woman confirmed that only two weeks ago, her husband had burnt her.

“But when I ask she, she seh is a accident”, exclaimed her friend, who added that the woman’s younger son had told her that it was her father who had burnt her mother.

The little lad also confirmed this and said that his mother was even having nightmares.

He recalled one recent scenario in which the woman woke up from her sleep during the night and began to scream “watch he coming! he will beat me!”.

Days later, the woman,s husband came home and began to slap and kick her before taking a hammer and beat her in the head.

She was subsequently admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Hospital sources confirmed that unlike previous occasions, the woman strangely begged them not to send her back home to her husband this time, as she cannot take it anymore.

Sadly, it was death which granted her that wish.

The Guyana Guardian understands that outside of the beatings, the woman’s life was filled with griefs, emotional pains, and sorrow.

Five years ago, she lost one of her sons to a brutal accident on the Corentyne Coast, and a few years before that she lost her daughter whose death was also untimely.

Her only surviving child had just finished nursery school, and should have been preparing to attend primary school in the new school year.

But with no father, mother, or siblings around, observers are uncertain about how the child would cope, or even who would actually care for the child.

For more on this story go to:  https://www.guyanaguardian.com/husband-kills-wife-cracking-skull-hammer/