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As Professor S
Saine highlighted sometime ago, the rate of domestic violence among
Gambian couples in the diaspora is alarmingly high. What needs to be done to remedy this problem?
The murder of Fatou Saine, apparenatly by her estranged husband is very sad indeed. This is not the first time animousity between married Gambian couples in the UK have degenerated in to murder; there was a similar tragic outcome in the mid 1990s. My personal advice particularly to men who are in unhealthy and sour relationship is to seek a complete separation at first and then ultimately a divorce if need be. Sometimes a woman and a man would get in to a relationship and later one or both parties realise that there is a significant unbridgeable compatibility gap between them. Under such circumstances, it is best to go separate ways. It might even be most helpful to both parties if one party relocates to another village, town or city to avoid the possibility of daily intereaction with one another. Also, distance and time could sometimes heal misunderstandings. No one is obliged to be trapped in an unhealthy marriage or relationship, not even for the
sake of the kids. It is even better for kids that parents separate than be verbally or physically fighting each other on a daily or weekly basis. Violence in a relationship could easily lead to murder.
Let us daily seek refuge from the evil in us and that from others as well.

Bailo

The following are newspaper reports on the murder of Fatou Saine by her estranged husband:
Witness tells how husband cuddled shopworker before knifing her in Glasgow city centre

Jun 3 2010

By Keith McLeod

TRAGIC shopworker Fatou Saine was hugged by her attacker seconds before he repeatedly stabbed her with an eight-inch knife.

The 38-year-old mum had agreed to talk to the man, thought to be her estranged husband, at the back of the McColl's newsagent's.

Yesterday, witness Eddie Sutherland, 25, described the chilling scene at the shop in Glasgow city centre.

He said: "I was in to buy juice for my kids on Tuesday and was aware of a tall black man coming in.

"The next thing, I saw him and a black woman, who had been serving, talking and walking towards the back of the shop.

"He then put his arms round her from behind. I thought it was a normal hug because they kept walking.

"But then I heard him raise his voice and a dreadful scream and his arm started moving up and down.

"He was stabbing her repeatedly. The screams were terrible, bone-chilling. I can still hear them now.

"He then turned round slightly and plunged the knife into himself, high up on his stomach.

"He collapsed and a guy, a builder I think, ran over and grabbed the knife."

Sheikh Saine was yesterday said to be "serious but stable" in Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

UK NEWS

SHOP WOMAN DIES IN MURDER-SUICIDE BID

A jilted husband is believed to have burst into his estranged wife’s workplace and stabbed her

Wednesday June 2,2010

By Rod Mills

A
JILTED husband is believed to have burst into his estranged wife’s
workplace and stabbed her to death before trying to take his own life.

Two
firefighters tried to grapple with Sheikh Saine as he launched the
frenzied attack on spouse Fatou in a busy city centre newsagent.

But paramedics who raced to the branch of McColl’s in St Enoch Square,
Glasgow, discovered Mrs Saine already dead.

Shoppers and staff watched in horror as Saine plunged a knife into the
38-year-old shop manageress’s chest.

Witnesses said he then stabbed himself in the stomach before being
restrained and taken to hospital. Detectives were last night thought to
be waiting to question him at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where his
condition was described as “serious but stable”.

Strathclyde Police, who have launched a murder inquiry, refused to
confirm that the attacker and his victim were related. But it is
understood they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the
incident. Firemen, who had been carrying out fire safety inspections
nearby, rushed to the woman’s aid as the attack unfolded.

They wrestled the man to the ground and disarmed him as he tried to
stab himself in the apparent murder-suicide bid. The pair gave the
dying woman first aid as emergency services rushed to the scene, but
paramedics were unable to save her and she died at the scene.

It is thought the couple split last year and their son is being cared
for by grandparents in the family’s native West Africa. A source said:
“The two fire officers managed to get the knife off him and then tried
to give the woman first aid to try to save her, but she was too badly
injured.

“They had been on duty and in
uniform at the time, they were carrying out fire safety inspections in
the area.” Mrs Fatou is thought to have worked at McColl’s for some
time, but it is not known if her husband had also worked for the chain.
Another member of staff and several customers who were in the shop at
the time of the murder were uninjured in the attack.

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