Relatives of pensioner Dolly Ramoutar have deliberately not told her that her husband is dead as she remains in a state of shock after bandits raided their Siparia home.
Ramoutar, 86, who was also stabbed in the attack, has been restrained by nurses at the San Fernando General Hospital.
Her husband, Balkaran Dookie, 76, was found dead on Sunday during a visit by his son Mukesh.
The son went to the house at Spring Trace, after a neighbour had alerted him that the couple were not seen having breakfast in their porch as they normally did.
When Mukesh entered the living room, he saw the house ransacked, his father slumped on a recliner and his stepmother sitting on the floor beside him with blood on her chest, back and face.
Ramoutar was stabbed six times on her chest and back while Dookie was fatally stabbed in the chest, police said.
Speaking by telephone yesterday, Shanti Ramsamooj, said her mother was not coping well.
“She is still under a little loss of memory because I was talking to her and she does not know what happened. All she told me is the she wants to see him (Dookie). It seems like she got a shock after the stabbing.
“She talked to me good, she knew me, she knew my aunt and she asked me for my father. She asked me for him but I could not tell her that he was dead because of the condition she is in. When she asked me where he is, I told her, ‘I don't know,’ because she said she left him home and she has not seen him. She does not know that he died and the doctor said not to tell her anything as yet,” Ramsamooj said.
She added that Ramoutar said the bandits stole her money.
Up to yesterday no one was arrested.