Four-year-old watches Grandpa kill Guyanese granny in Brooklyn

February 19, 2013, By KNews, Filed Under News, Source

Brooklyn, US (New York Daily News) – A churchgoing Brooklyn grandmother who migrated there, was nearly decapitated when her crazed husband killed her with a kitchen knife in front of her four-year-old grandson on Sunday, police and relatives said.

The victim, Hazel Robinson, 51, was attacked about 11:45hrs by her husband, Ian Robinson, in the home they shared on E. 102nd Street in Canarsie, relatives and police sources said.

Dead granny: Hazel Robinson, 51

Ian Robinson, 58, went berserk and stabbed her in the neck, partially severing her head, police sources said. The victim’s grandson, who was in the home, watched the horrific attack.

“It was gruesome,” said Lydon Laing, Hazel Robinson’s brother.

“He witnessed everything. She wasn’t a bad person. He turned out to be,” said the victim’s brother, Arthur Laing, 60.

“God will take care of him.”

Ian Robinson was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon late Sunday night. Police said he had no prior arrests and that there had been no previous reports of domestic abuse at the couple’s home.

“She is a very hardworking person, very Christian-like,” Laing said of his sister, still referring to her in the present tense.

Hazel Robinson worked at the Salvation Army in the Bronx, he said.

The couple wed about 12 years ago in their native Guyana.

Before Sunday, there were no signs of trouble in the marriage, relatives said.

Hazel Robinson had an adult son from a previous relationship and a four-year-old grandson, relatives said.

She was a devoted parishioner at the Christian Cultural Centre in East New York, Brooklyn.

“She loved her family,” said the victim’s cousin Claire Hodge, 65.

“She was very concerned about her husband — she took good care of him.”