Despite repeated pleas by her relatives and friends to end an abusive relationship, 42-year-old Angel Lutchman stayed. That decision ended in tragedy yesterday. The mother of two was found with her throat slit and stab wounds about the body in the bedroom of her Pranz Gardens, Claxton Bay home. Her boyfriend, Shazard Mohammed, 29, was found hanging next to her. The grim discovery was made by Lutchman’s 11-year-old son around 7 am, when he returned home after spending the night at an aunt’s house. At the house yesterday, Lutchman’s older brother Mark said from the “get-go,” he had told them he could not support their relationship. Although he knew Mohammed growing up in the neighbourhood, he said he did not like the gaping age difference between them. Mark described the relationship as stormy and abusive, adding that he had to intervene on several occasions. “This was a poison relationship from the beginning and they never stop. He keep coming back. Two of them keep making up and this is the end product of this,” he said. He recalled that at the beginning of this year, Lutchman had taken out a restraining order against Mohammed, but despite this, they stayed together. Four months ago, he said Mohammed had threatened to kill his sister in front of him. “I came on many occasions to try and welch when they have their fallouts and the last time I came (in July), he told me in front of this house, he say, ‘I going to kill your sister, I don’t business what no police have to say.’ Because the police was looking for him. She went and take out a restraining order.” Mark said he called her then and told her to inform the police that he was waiting until they arrived to get Mohammed to leave the property. However, he said his sister got there before the police, recalling, “Both of them went in the back and they spoke. Then, she came back and said, ‘I not going to bring no police in this anymore.’” Mark said he got upset with his sister, noting the cycle continued after this incident. “Every time he come here is a fight, he threatening to kill you, he want to beat you,” he lamented, adding that Mohammed had even “banned” his sister from talking to her family and friends. “He wanted to keep she in a little bubble of his own. She mustn’t go no way and she mustn’t speak to no one.” He described his sister as a people person, the “life of the party,” who had many friends.