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A Bel­mont woman, who was said to have been a long-time vic­tim of do­mes­tic abuse at the hands of a close male rel­a­tive, was stabbed to death on Sun­day dur­ing an ar­gu­ment with the sus­pect at her home.

The bloody at­tack against Wendy Bertrand of Bowen Trace, St Barbs, Bel­mont, re­port­ed­ly oc­curred in front of her eight-year-old son.

Bertrand, 53, who worked as a nurse at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, suc­cumbed to in­juries af­ter be­ing stabbed with a kitchen knife mul­ti­ple times about the head, face, neck, chest and arms dur­ing the in­ci­dent.