Just months before she disappeared, fed up with the abuse at the hands of Kamal Worrell, Chavelle Dillon-Burgess had decided to leave Bermuda.

She had bought a plane ticket and was going to take her infant son and start a new life in the United States. But she was robbed of that chance by Worrell, who was convicted yesterday by a jury of her murder.

Chavelle’s grandmother, Thelma-Jean Wong, said she had some friends in America and was planning on leaving to stay with them. She said Chavelle had made the decision a few months before she went missing.

Asked why she wanted to leave, Mrs Wong said: “Because of the abuse.”

Asked if Chavelle had just had enough, Mrs Wong replied: “Yes, yes.”

Chavelle had arrived in Bermuda in 2014 from Jamaica to help her mother, Rose Belboda, and was working two jobs — one at LF Wade International Airport and one at the Fairmont Southampton.

According to Mrs Wong, Chavelle was saving money to buy land in Jamaica, but she would also give money to her family. She dreamt of returning to Jamaica to live.

“Oh my, she was so friendly, kind. She was a kind person,” Mrs Wong said. “You see, if I said I was going to Jamaica, she would save money and give it to me to give to all our cousins. That was how she was.

“She was very generous and with all her work, she saved up $15,000 which she gave to me to keep for her. She said, ‘Nana, I want this $15,000 to go to Jamaica to buy a piece of land’, because she said, ‘I want to make my own home’.”

Chavelle met Worrell while married to her estranged husband, Kimberley Scott Burgess, who has since moved to Britain, and became pregnant with Worrell’s child.

Mrs Wong said: “She was with Mr Worrell, but we didn’t know that. We didn’t know, we thought she was with the guy that she married. But then, when she finally come to me and tell me about the pregnancy, she let me know it’s for Mr Worrell.

“Yeah, she was in love with Mr Worrell.”

At one point in the relationship, after the baby was born, Worrell and Chavelle were involved in a custody case over their son.

Then one day, said Mrs Wong, the Department of Child and Family Services called to ask her if she could take in Chavelle because she was living in an abusive relationship.

“I said, sure. She was living here before, and I didn’t send her out. So she can come.

“So they brought her home. They came and assessed the place and her room. They said what changes needed to be made in the room, to accommodate the baby so that we could have a little crib in there for the baby.

“We sorted out everything and got whatever they said to get and they helped us, helped her to get some of the things.

“So she was here and living here with me, she and the baby. I would sleep and get up to use the bathroom and she’s sitting on her phone.

“I’m saying, ‘Chavelle, who are you talking to these hours of the night?’ And she said, ‘Grandma, it’s Kamal. He will be calling me all hours of the night saying how much he misses us and how he want us. He wants us to be a family together’.

“I said, ‘Chavelle, I don’t believe that’. I said, ‘come off the phone, and go and lay down beside your baby. You should not be on your phone this hour of the night’.”

Mrs Wong said the court had ordered that Chavelle looked after her baby during the week and that Worrell had custody at the weekends.

She said that Chavelle started staying out late or would not come home, saying she was staying with a friend.

She suspected Chavelle was staying with Worrell and one day, she said, her granddaughter said, ‘Nana, Kamal said he wants me to come back, to move back in, because he wants us to be a family together’.

“I said, ‘don’t believe that, Chavelle’. I said, ‘Chavelle, I would not go back. After all the things that you tell me that happened, I would not go back.’ But she still went.

“Well, throughout all this, I’m still warning her and I say, ‘Chavelle, if you want to come back, the door is always open, because I didn’t tell you to go, so you can always come back’.

“I said, ‘Chavelle. Chavelle, you know you need to get out of that relationship. She wouldn’t listen. She wouldn’t listen.”

About two months before Chavelle disappeared, Mrs Wong had been trying to get hold of her granddaughter.

“I was so concerned about her and I was trying to reach her, but I could not get her.

“When I wasn’t getting her, I called Mr Worrell’s phone, and let him know that I’m trying to reach Chavelle and I’m not getting her, so whenever time she came home to ask her to call me because I wanted to talk with her.

“And then, after that she came by, and I asked her, ‘what happened to your phone? I was trying to reach you’. She said her phone wasn’t working where she was; she didn’t have any wi-fi connection. So I said, ‘did Mr Worrell give you a message from me?’ And she said, ‘no, she never got any message.

“During that same two-month period, I had a dream. And the dream was, I see my daughter in the kitchen and she had two long black bags laid out like two body bags.

“But before that, I remember Chavelle came one day and she was sitting on the side of the bed, and I was sitting beside her and I was asking her, ‘how are things going with you and Mr Worrell?’

“She said, ‘not too bad, Grandma. We are trying to make it work for the sake of the baby’. I'm saying, ‘if it’s just for the sake of the baby, that’s not good. That’s not good’.

“Anyway, she said to me, ‘Kamal said he wants another baby’. I said, ‘girl, it would be stupid, don’t even think about that’.

“So when I had the dream, it was puzzling because I’m saying, ‘what if she was pregnant again?’ Because my daughter came in and she came with those two black bags, just like two body bags.

“I just fear that she was pregnant, and it’s two of them gone. That’s what come to my mind.”

After Chavelle went missing, Mrs Wong said she would call or text Worrell every day, but he told her he had not seen her or heard from her.

“Then one day he said to me, because he called me Nana, like Chavelle, he said, ‘Nana, there’s something I didn’t tell you’. I said, ‘what is that?’ And he said, ‘I didn’t tell you that me and Chavelle had a fight, and she put some clothes into a bag and left.

“I said, ‘that’s not like her, she doesn’t have her own car, there were no buses on the road because the country was on lockdown. No planes are flying, nothing.

“I said, ‘she’s not with me, she’s not with her mom, she’s not with her uncle and she’s not with her friends. So where could she be?’

“He’s saying he doesn’t know, and she never come back.”

Mrs Wong added: “I was puzzled because I know that she would never leave her baby. She’d never have left the baby.

“When she’d gone missing, I had a dream that I saw Chavelle — she came and she sat on the side of my bed and I said, ‘Chavelle, where are you?’ and she said, ‘I can't tell you, Nana’.

“She looked just the same like how she used to look. And I just know that she’s gone, but where she’s gone, we don't know.”

Chavelle’s son, also called Kamal, is now aged 5.

Asked if she had spoken to him about his mother, Mrs Wong said: “I would show him pictures of his mom. I said, ‘look, do you know who this is’ and he said, ‘yes, that’s my mommy. That's mommy Chavelle.

“I said, ‘so where is mommy Chavelle?’ He said, ‘I don't know, but she’s coming soon’.”