Penal hairdresser killed in murder-suicide

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Hours af­ter Ste­fan Khan­dan and Giselle Ougrah were found dead in their Pe­nal apart­ment in what po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing as a sus­pect­ed mur­der-sui­cide, Khan­dan’s sis­ter ap­pealed to the pub­lic not to judge her broth­er sole­ly on the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing his death, while ac­knowl­edg­ing that the cou­ple’s re­la­tion­ship had be­come in­creas­ing­ly tox­ic.

Khan­dan, 27, a labour­er of Bo­caud Trace, Pe­nal Rock Road, and Ougrah, 23, of Tor­rib Trace, New Grant, had been in­volved in a tur­bu­lent re­la­tion­ship for more than a year. The cou­ple be­gan rent­ing an apart­ment at Sun­dars­ingh Trace, Pe­nal, about a month ago.