Nawsheen Chady, 37, Killed by Her Drug-addicted Husband - Roziffa, Her Mother: 'If the Police Had Arrested Sfwaan, This Wouldn't Have Happened'

Nawsheen Chady, 37, was brutally killed by her drug-addicted husband, Sfwaan Chady, in their family yard in St-Pierre. Just hours earlier, Roziffa Eckburally, Nawsheen's mother, had alerted the police, filing a Precautionary Measure due to repeated threats and violence. Unfortunately, her pleas went unheard. After being arrested, Sfwaan initially denied the accusations but later confessed.

On Thursday morning, Roziffa, 62, begged the St-Pierre police to detain her violent son-in-law who had threatened her daughter’s life. By the afternoon, it was too late. At 1:30 PM, in the family yard on Cemetery Road, Sfwaan, 38, fatally beat his wife Nawsheen, 37, using a metal rod and pipe, in front of surveillance cameras. He continued to assault her until she lay motionless.

"If you had arrested Sfwaan this morning, this wouldn’t have happened," lamented a broken-hearted Roziffa, demanding justice. Earlier that morning, she had gone to the police station to report the violence against her daughter, filing a Precautionary Measure (PM) and requesting immediate intervention against her son-in-law, whom she described as violent, threatening, and armed. However, the family claims no timely action was taken.

Around 1:30 PM, yet another argument erupted between the couple, who had been married for 14 years. Sfwaan, a drug addict, violently attacked his wife, striking her with a metal rod multiple times. This bloodied weapon was later seized by the police. When Nawsheen fell to the ground, he picked up a piece of metal pipe and delivered several blows.

CCTV footage captured the horrific scene as Nawsheen pleaded for her life, but Sfwaan ignored her cries and ultimately delivered the fatal blow to her head with the metal piece. He fled the scene, leaving her for dead in a pool of blood.

Nawsheen, a mother of a 12-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter, died on the spot in their family yard. An autopsy conducted Thursday evening at Victoria Hospital’s morgue by Dr. Sudesh Kumar Gungadin, Chief Police Medical Officer, determined the cause of death to be a skull fracture with cerebral laceration.

Quickly located, Sfwaan was arrested by ASP Seedhyan from the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of Moka, led by Chief Inspector Motee, along with Sergeants Rutha, Govindasamy, and Tracker Sairmahomed. Initially, the accused denied the charges, fabricating a story that his mother and wife were fighting. "My wife was trying to kill my mother. I defended my mother," he claimed at first.

Investigators viewed this version with skepticism, which was eventually disproven. When questioned by the CID, Sfwaan’s parents stated they were not home that Thursday afternoon. "We were out shopping. When we returned, we heard about it," the father told Défi Media Group. While in custody, Sfwaan eventually confessed. He is set to be provisionally charged with murder on Friday, July 11, 2025.

Roziffa Eckburally remains furious, asserting that her son-in-law had been unstable for days: "For two or three days he wasn't normal. Since Monday, he has been enraged." According to her, there were obvious signs of danger. She recounted that on Wednesday, he had already violently attacked Nawsheen: "He was beating his wife and his mother-in-law. If the police had intervened, this wouldn’t have happened. The police insisted that either his wife or mother-in-law report him. They should have acted sooner."

She also mentioned being threatened by her son-in-law, who was brandishing a metal rod: "He was swinging the metal rod, threatening us, saying he would kill us. I was at the police station since 9 AM on Thursday. I told them he was threatening us with a weapon… but the police did nothing," she emphasized. She recounted how she learned about the tragedy: "I was in the store when his brother called my son and said, ‘Get home fast because Sfwaan is beating your sister. He’s going to kill her.’"

Without wasting any time, Roziffa Eckburally and her son, who run a store in the St-Pierre area, rushed home hoping to save Nawsheen. "We were in a hurry; when we called the station again. By the time we arrived, it was too late. He had already killed my daughter," the grieving mother shared through tears. She is convinced that this tragedy could have been prevented. Now, a family is in mourning, two children are left motherless, and there are unanswered questions regarding the authorities' response.