00:00Four days shy of her 76th birthday, Tara Bridgmohan was found bound, gagged and murdered in her bed
00:09during what police believe was a robbery at her Hassan Ali Trace South Barakpur home.
00:15The deadly home invasion occurred sometime between Friday afternoon and 1am on Saturday.
00:21Tara lived upstairs of this house while her daughter and son-in-law lived downstairs.
00:27When we visited on Saturday morning, her son-in-law said he and his wife operate a bar in Lower
00:34Barakpur
00:35and he left home around 4.30pm on Friday to assist her.
00:40Tara was home alone and when the couple returned around 1am after closing up on Saturday morning,
00:47they made the horrific discovery.
00:49As soon as I opened the door and I went inside, the whole place was ramstack.
00:54When I went in now, it's because to see she lie down on the hand and the foot,
01:02tie shrub, and the mouth, put cloth on, stuff in, just like that.
01:10He says both the upstairs and downstairs were ransacked and a significant amount of jewellery,
01:17TT and US dollars were stolen from both of them.
01:20Entry, he says, was gained through a burglar proofing that was cut downstairs while the upstairs door
01:28appeared to have been pried open.
01:30They break it to open it.
01:32When this opened over here, this was straight down here as that.
01:37They raised that and they went in inside.
01:39This is probably about 16 inches for somebody to fit through, but they come in there.
01:46So if they can come in there, nobody is safe anymore, really.
02:11He believes the area would benefit from more police patrols.
02:17In Bapa, you know, I think we could get a little more patrol with the police as well
02:22if we instate an emergency because it will have a lot of people.
02:25After hours, you know, there will still be roaming the road and whatever.
02:29And probably these are the same ones, could be the delayed ones.
02:33You understand?
02:34Because when I sleep in there, waking, and at the end of the day, something has to be done.
02:40He says Tara was very friendly with neighbours and always comfortable in her home.
02:46There was never fear of such an attack.
02:52Tara was a mother of five grandmothers.
02:53She's a very kind, hearty person.
02:56If she has, she could do it out and give.
02:59After how many years, this woman lives.
03:03You understand?
03:04And if to know she's one of the eldest in the street,
03:10and the young people don't have respect for them, well then.
03:15Tara was a mother of five, grandmother of six, and great-grandmother of two.
03:21An autopsy is expected to take place next week
03:24to determine how she died as investigations continue.
03:29Cindy Raguba, Tika Singh, TV6 News.
