Suspect in broom vendors’ murders succumbs

Deodat Persaud

– had recorded video confession on phone

Deodat ‘Simon’ Persaud, 21, who succumbed at the New Amsterdam Hospital after ingesting a poisonous substance, had admitted in a video recording on his phone that he murdered the two Corentyne broom vendors.

The bodies of Florry Papiah, 33, and Jennifer Pooran, 19, of Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant