Res­i­dents of Bam­boo No 1, Val­sayn, were left hor­ri­fied yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter learn­ing that Shaf­fi­na Ho­sein Madoo had been killed by her com­mon-law part­ner.

A close fe­male rel­a­tive, liv­ing a stone’s throw from Madoo’s mod­est home on Nanan Street, ex­pressed shock up­on learn­ing that the 68-year-old moth­er of five had been beat­en to death with a rolling pin.

Her 60-year-old part­ner re­port­ed­ly told first re­spon­ders that he had been dri­ven to com­mit the act af­ter dis­cov­er­ing mes­sages on Madoo’s cell­phone that sug­gest­ed she had be­trayed him.