Mother, twin sons found with throats slit in Kolkata

Kolkata: Three members of a family, a woman and her two teenage sons, were found murdered in their apartment in south Kolkata’s up market Palm Avenue area on Saturday morning.

“Bodies of Jessica Fonseca (43) and her twin sons Tarren and Joshua — both class 8 students — were found lying in their bedroom with their throats slit.

The officers of the police station broke through the main door after getting a complaint about the family not responding to phone calls,” said an officer of the homicide squad of the Kolkata police.

The woman’s husband, Neil Fonseca (49), who was found lying in the house with cuts on his neck, has been moved to hospital.

Initial investigations suggest that Neil was having an extramarital affair, which Jessica has come to know, leading to a quarrel between the two and then followed by the gruesome events.

“It is a sad tale of modern day family having everything but lost to greed and lust,” said an investigating officer unwilling to share further details.

Sources though inform that Neil has told the police that he killed his wife after she killed their sons.

However, there are many unanswered questions in this puzzle as the family was seen going out last night for a dinner and most importantly, their daughter Samantha who was sleeping in the room along with Jessica’s sister Shabana could not hear anything.

Some investigators suggested that the relationship was within the family leading to the dispute and the murder. “There are lots of unanswered questions as to how they could not hear anything when three people got killed in the room just adjacent to it. Also there was business dispute within the family which could have led to an outsider entering the flat,” said another investigator.

The incident has got the attention of the social media with many drawing parallels to the Arushi murder and more recently Sheena Bora murder where their parents is accused of murdering their own children.

“The savageness of our society is coming out into the open. Imaging what kind of a human can kill his or her own flesh and blood,” questioned Susmita Chatterjee, a psychologist.

“Even [if] they had a dispute what wrong could have the two teenagers possibly done to murder them it such a gruesome manner? Adults often derail but killing two young people who had their whole life in front of them is not pardonable,” said Pushkar Sinha, a private investigator.