A British mother died after she was set on fire and strangled as she lay in her bed in Barbados

News24xx.com -  A British mother-of-three died after she was set on fire and strangled as she lay in her bed in Barbados. 

The family of Luton-born Natalie Crichlow, 44, say they are ‘shocked and devastated’ after she was attacked by an unknown intruder in her bedroom on July 28 while visiting to take care of her disabled brother. 

Her niece Ashley Best has claimed the intruder broke in the house in Christ Church, before strangling her and setting her alight, leaving her with 75 per cent burns to her body. 

Natalie, who had survived cancer twice and had two strokes in the past decade, died in hospital just over a week later on August 6. 

Natalie, also known by the names of Natalee and Karma, had lived proudly as a gay women for a number of years. She had worked in various jobs including as door staff and as a makeup artist. 

Natalie regularly visited Barbados to look after her brother after the death of her mother and uncle earlier this year.

A spokesman for the Royal Barbados Police Force said no arrests have been made. Stabroek News in Barbados reported that police are on the hunt for a man who ‘barged into a house, choked a woman, doused her with a flammable substance and then set the house on fire’. 

Natalie, who lived in Colingdale, north London, leaves behind three children, aged 10, 20 and 26 years old, who are ‘devastated’ and want to get her back home to Britain for burial. 

 

 

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