A
taxi
driver
and
his
wife
of
18
years
died
within
hours
of
each
other
following
a
murder/suicide
which
shook
the
community
of
Vryheid,
West
Canje,
Berbice,
late
Friday.
Dead
is
Aubrey
Paddy,
45,
and
Michelle,
34,
a
supernumerary constable
attached
to
Magistrate
Geeta
Chandan.
Reports
reveal
that
the
killings,
witnessed
by
two
of
their
three
children,
stemmed
from
long
periods
of
physical
abuse.
According
to
Michon Guillaume,
18,
her
step-father
was
expected
to
work
the
night
shift
at
the
'Triple
S'
Taxi
Service
at
Philadelphia
Street
in
New
Amsterdam,
which
is
about
three
hundred
meters
from
their
home.
However,
he
returned
home
between
9
and
10
pm,
whilst
she
was
watching
her
favourite
television
programme
'Top
Ten'.
According
to
the
teenager,
on
opening
the
door,
Paddy
told
her
to
place
a
bowl
to
catch
the
water
from
the
leaking
roof
as
it
was
raining.
In
addition,
he
ordered
her
to
place
a
chair
behind
the
front
door.
Having
done
so,
the
eldest
child
resumed
viewing
the
programme.
Her
father
went
into
the
bedroom
where
her
mother
was
and
then
she
heard
her
mother
saying,
"Don't
do
this
to
me'.
Her
mother
ran
from
the
room,
naked,
and
ran
outside,
where
she
slipped
in
the
mud,
her
husband
pursuing
her
with
a
knife.
He
stabbed
her
several
times,
Guillaume
said,
as
her
10-year-old
brother
Seon
attempted
to
take
the
knife
away
from
his
father.
She
remembered
screaming,
as
her
mother
repeated
weakly,
"Don't
kill
me."
Michelle
Paddy
was
pronounced
dead
on
arrival
at
the
New
Amsterdam
Hospital.
Guillaume
spent
the
night
at
a
neighbour's
house,
and
on returning
home
yesterday
morning,
found
a
note
written
by
her
father
on
the
dining
table,
saying
that
if
he
could
not
have
her
mother,
then
nobody
else
would.
Then
she
heard
that
the
Police
had
found
the
body
of
her
father
in
a
yard
at
Rose
Hall
Corentyne,
some
20
miles
from
the
murder
scene,
and
it
is
believed
that
he
had
committed
suicide.
In
addition
to
Guillaume,
the
couple
leaves
behind
three
other
children
Aubrey,
13,
Seon,
10
and
Allison,
7.
Sunday,
August
12,
2007
