A 28-year-old labourer of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice succumbed to injuries he sustained to his face and head during a beating around 8:30 pm on Boxing Day and two persons have since been arrested.
Jairam Persaud was taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital and was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Hospital where he died a few days later. Reports are that the man also suffered a broken jaw and injuries to his left eye.
His mother, Jessica Rambarran told this newspaper that she did not realize her son was injured until 4 the following morning when she got up to cook.
She said her son who was lying under the house told her that three men from the village had beaten him with a “heavy belt head” for no reason at all and threw him into a drain.
The men reportedly followed him as he was returning home and threw him into a drain in front of the house. Later that morning, a report was made to the Blairmont Police Station and the police arrested two of the men.
The men were placed on station bail two days later and one of them has since escaped. Rambarran said after her son died one of men showed up at her house for the “wake” and he was rearrested along with the third accomplice.
The woman said that her son and an elderly friend, Dhaneshwar Persaud who is blind were relaxing on the pavilion at the playground in the area when the men attacked her son.
She said Persaud told her that he called out to her to inform them of the incident but she was already in bed and did not hear because of the loud music that was blasting in the area. Rambarran said “we are poor people” and she could not afford to travel to Georgetown every day to see her son. She said she received a call on January 3 from the nurses that she should go to the hospital because “me son get more low and he want to see me.”
She left immediately and it was only after she got to the hospital that another patient informed her that her son had died on “Old Year’s day and his body was in the mortuary.”
She said her son would consume alcohol regularly but he “don’t interfere with anybody. He would come home peacefully.” She insisted though, that he was not drinking at the time of the attack.
The distraught woman said, “I want to know who really kill meh son but I leave everything to God. Jairam who also leaves to mourn his father, Harry Persaud and siblings Puran, Balram, Sookram and Raguram will be laid to rest today.