After being convicted and sentenced twice for killing his 6-month-old son, a Guyanese man in Toronto, Canada has won a new hearing in a five-year battle to block his deportation here.
The man Ramnaresh Katwaru, 33, of Tuxedo Court previously filed two successful appeals to the Federal Court of Canada that have prevented him from being deported thus far.
According to a report in yesterday’s Toronto Sun, Justice Elizabeth Heneghan of Canada’s Federal Court prevented another deportation bid when she ruled on September 17 that “the enforcement officer failed to fully consider all the evidence …including the applicant’s fear of being at risk if returned to Guyana.” She ordered another pre-removal trial to determine if Katwaru will be at risk if returned here.
Katwaru was jailed for 10 years in 1998 after a jury had convicted him of manslaughter. But the sentence was quashed in 2001 by the Court of Appeal which ordered a re-trial because of legal errors. He was jailed for 50 months in August, 2002
The court had heard that in February 1996 Katwaru slammed the back of his son’s head into a sofa.
He choked him, threw him into the crib and tossed him onto the bed before the mother caught the boy, the report said. The child died of a swollen brain.
Katwaru arrived in Canada in 1992 as a landed immigrant but never took out citizenship.
