A fisherman was on Thursday stabbed to death during a confrontation with his ex-wife’s boyfriend at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.
Richard Sanchara, 31, of Lot 176 Seawall Road, Montrose, was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital after receiving multiple stab wounds.
Police, in a statement, said that Sanchara and the man were involved in an argument over a woman, during which he was stabbed about his body. The suspect, police added, was arrested and is in custody assisting with the investigations.
“He come back from sea around midday yesterday (Thursday) and he leave to go see his seven-year-old daughter at Mon Repos and from there he carry she and buy couple things for her,” the dead man’s mother, Drupattie Sanchara, told Stabroek News.
Sanchara returned the child home, she said, and he was leaving the village when he noticed his ex-wife in the company of another man who he had never seen before.
“Is when he take the girl home and walking back out, he butt into she at Mon Repos Agriculture Road and they had ah argument with the fella right there,” she related.
According to her, the man viciously stabbed and chopped her son about the body. Sanchara said that police on patrol noticed the incident and intervened but by that time, her son was already severely injured.
“They (police) take him to the hospital but he died on the way,” she said, while adding that the news was delivered to her by a taxi driver from the area but by the time she found her son he was dead.
His sister, Sharon Sanchara, said that a post-mortem examination revealed that her brother bled to death after being stabbed to the heart and his throat was slit. “His two foot was barely thatched on,” the woman said, as she described the gruesome sight of her brother’s body.
The woman said her son was only released from prison a month ago after serving a six-month sentence for his involvement in a robbery on the East Coast.
The woman explained that he continued to work at sea—work that he had been doing for several years. She noted that her son was unaware of his ex-wife’s new relationship.
According to the woman, the couple were not legally married but lived together for a period of time and the union produced a child. “They does have a little teeth and tongue every now and then but nothing serious,” she said.
The woman further told this newspaper that when her son was in prison, his partner frequently visited him and it seemed as though the relationship was progressing smoothly.
“He come out prison last month and see that she move on… they even went to the welfare officer and they tell she that she can’t stop him from seeing the child,” the dead man’s mother, however, added.
Both the man accused of murdering Sanchara and the man’s ex-wife was taken into custody at the Beterver-wagting Police Station on the night in question. The woman was released yesterday.
