According to reports, after murdering the woman the man placed her on their bed and stayed with her the entire night until he took his own life early Monday evening.

Jodhan told this newspaper that her daughter and Rampertab visited her home on Christmas day. She said they even visited with a neighbour and appeared to be in high spirits.

The neighbour commented that she had cut Kishunchand's hair and the young woman modelled the new hairstyle for them before she and Rampertab departed.

Jodhan said her son-in-law had promised to videotape a wedding that was being held at her sister's home at Bee Hive, ECD.

She said that as the day progressed and she saw no sign of them she dialled one of their three mobile phones. She said Rampertab answered and informed her that her daughter was at a neighbour's. He told her that her daughter did not have any of the phones with her and promised that they would have taken a taxi and gotten to the wedding shortly.

It grew later and there was still no sign of either of them, Jodhan said, and she dialled the numbers again, but no one answered. This was around 6.30 pm on Monday. The woman said that when she left the wedding she decided to go straight to her daughter's home.

When she arrived, Jodhan said, she called out to them but no one answered. She rang the mobile phones again, but to no avail. A check was then made at the neighbour that her daughter had supposedly visited earlier that day. Jodhan was told that the neighbour had not seen Kishunchand for the entire day. Jodhan said she then became very worried and fearful and was advised to contact the police before attempting to open the couple's house.

She rang the Vigilance Police Station but was told she needed to go to the station and make a report and a police officer would accompany her back.

This was done and when with the assistance of a neighbour the house was opened, the gruesome discovery was made.

According to the neighbour who assisted Jodhan and the officer in gaining entry to the house, the young woman was found lying on her back on the bed with a sheet pulled up to her neck.

The neighbour said Rampertab was kneeling next to Kishunchand on the bed and a mosquito net was tucked around the bed. There was a hole in the net through which the rope around his neck was tied to the ceiling. They were both dead.

"She get bad beat up and like he deh watching over she all this time because if you see she how she deh lie down good, good," the neighbour said.

He said the last time he saw the woman was on Christmas Day when she passed his home.

"I been playing music and she pass and mek like this [shake of the waist] and tell me a playing nice music..."

The girl's mother said the couple had been living at Good Hope for about five years. She said Rampertab met her daughter while she was still at school. Although he hails from Skeldon, Berbice, he was living in Georgetown when he met the young woman.

The man, according to his mother-in-law, did not work; he depended on his relatives overseas for support. She said although her daughter had told her that the man would "nag" her from time to time and that he was jealous she never indicated to her that things were that difficult and she was shocked over the incident.

The neighbour said he had never heard the couple quarrelling and if they did it was in the house as they were very quiet. He said they purchased the house from another family who had migrated.

However, the mother said another neighbour had told her that they heard noise on Christmas night which led her to believe that the woman might have been killed since then.

Police yesterday said they are investigating.