The 16-year-old, who was allegedly stabbed to death by his brother-in-law last Friday, died of a punctured heart, an autopsy has found.
According to a family member of the murdered Mulchand Munilall, the autopsy was performed on Monday by government pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh. A funeral service is being planned for Thursday.
The suspect in the attack, Hamid Latiff, is currently in police custody.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, Vashti Munilall, the dead teen’s sister, said that she was still traumatised from witnessing her brother’s death. “We are all trying to cope and help my mother…keep her strong,” she said.
Mulchand was sitting on a piece of wood at the edge of a canal at Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, when his alleged attacker grabbed him and begin to stab him before finally tossing him into the canal. His attacker subsequently fled the scene only after a failed attempt to kill Vashti. She had said that she was separated from Latiff for several months because he constantly physically abused her. She said that in October, she had reported the abuse and he was charged and remanded to prison for 14 days. She added that Latiff became enraged by her rejection and tried to kill her.
Latiff was released from prison the day before the murder. According to Vashti, he had threatened her hours before he killed her brother. She had added that he attacked later that afternoon and attempted to stab her with the same knife he would later use to murder her brother.
“The same knife he kill my brother with de fall out his pocket when he scramble me but I knock it away and run. I run straight home and me and my brother and uncle Rajesh went to the station,” she had stated.
