Police are yet to find concrete information that could lead to a breakthrough in last month’s murder of an elderly Enmore, East Coast Demerara woman.
Following the discovery of Rhampattie Ramsundar’s body in the bottom flat of her home, a police tracker dog led ranks to the house of a man that had reportedly been troubling the woman causing her to make several police reports. He and another Enmore resident were later arrested but released on station bail.
When contacted recently, a senior police official said the dog leading investigators to where one of the suspects lived was not enough.
“Yes he [the dog] did stop but we don’t have anything else to go on. We would need evidence. Evidence that would be accepted in a court of law,” the official said before pointing out that investigations are still continuing into the matter.
Ramsundar, 64, called ‘Auntie Daro,’ of Lot 88 Second Street, Newtown, Enmore, East Coast Demerara was found dead in the kitchen of her house around 10:45 am on February 15. The woman’s hands and feet were tied and she bore marks of violence about the body. A post-mortem examination later revealed that the elderly woman who lived alone, died as a result of asphyxiation due to manual strangulation compounded with blunt trauma to the head.
More that half a million dollars which the woman had collected several days before her death, was missing.
A neighbour reported hearing strange sounds around 3:30 am and when she looked out saw that a side door on the upper flat was open and the house lights were on. The woman said she called out to the Ramsundar but there was no answer. When she looked out again about an hour later, the door was closed. The neighbour had said that seeing the door open was not strange because the elderly woman would sometimes use her outside washroom.
