Girls’ night out ends in murder…Woman stabs best friend to death with broken bottle
A girls’ night out ended tragically Thursday night after an intoxicated young woman stabbed her best friend to death shortly after the companions had left a West Coast Demerara resort.
Angie and Lloyda Renita Thomas
Lloyda Renita Thomas, of Sunflower Close, South Ruimveldt, was stabbed to the stomach and head around 23.30 hrs, allegedly during a spat over who should sit where in a taxi. Thomas succumbed before her distraught attacker and a taxi driver could take her to the West Demerara Regional Hospital. The suspect, known as ‘Angie’, was treated at the same hospital after slashing one of her wrists. She was subsequently detained. “She’s very sorry now. She said that’s she was ‘high’ at the time,” a police source said. Thomas is survived by a one-year-old daughter. Both women live in the same apartment at South Ruimveldt. According to another resident, the friends, accompanied by a third woman and two children, left home at around 13.30 hrs on Thursday, after stating that they were going “to the pool over the river.” They then visited Aracari Resort at Versailles, West Bank Demerara. An official at the resort recalled seeing the friends drinking at the poolside. They were seen leaving together around 22.00 hrs. They then boarded a taxi and it was then that a quarrel reportedly broke out between the women over where they should sit. The row escalated, and Thomas’ best friend smashed a bottle and stabbed her to the stomach and throat. On realising that she had wounded her friend, the suspect reportedly became hysterical and slashed her own wrist. She accompanied the wounded Thomas to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where Thomas was pronounced dead on arrival. Yesterday, persons who knew Thomas and her alleged killer expressed shock that such a tragedy could have occurred between the two close friends. “They were best friends. They live together, they have children together; if you see them together you would think that they are twins,” a distraught friend said. “Up to now I can’t process why someone would do this to a person who is so close to them.” At least 12 women have been slain between January and May 21. There have been 60 recorded murders between January and May 18.