A churchgoing Guyanese grandmother was allegedly slaughtered in Brooklyn yesterday by her husband — who nearly sliced her head off before the horrified eyes of their 4-year-old grandson, sources said.
Hazel Robinson, 51, was butchered shortly before noon in her family’s Canarsie home by her husband, Ian, who allegedly stabbed her in the neck with a kitchen knife so many time he was left covered in blood, police sources said.
The whole grisly scene unfolded right in front of the couple’s grandson, according to the distraught brother of the victim.
“He witnessed everything,” Arthur Laing, 60, said about the grandson. “He did it in front of him. It was gruesome.”
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Hazel Robinson
The grandmother was found partially decapitated and lying on her bedroom floor at her 102nd Street home.
Ian Robinson, 58, was promptly taken into custody, the sources said. The JFK Airport worker was later charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Family said that, before yesterday’s attack, the couple had seemed close.
They had been married for 12 years. Kin said they never saw anything to predict such violence and cops had no record of previous calls for assistance to their home.
“She was a very hard-working person, very charitable,” Laing said of his sister. “She took care of her family.”
Hazel was one of eight siblings who immigrated to the United States from Guyana years ago, kin said.
She spent 10 years working at a Salvation Army center in The Bronx and was very active at the Christian Cultural Center in East New York, her family said.
“She was a very quiet person, into her church. She loved the Lord,” said cousin stunned Claire Hodge, 65. “It was shocking when we got the news.”
Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Kenneth Gargerand Natasha Velez
reuven.fenton@nypost.com
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