A 26-year-old Chartered Accountant was beaten to death by his neighbours on Tuesday at Mahaica Creek, while his father suffered life-threatening injuries and his brother was the victim of a near fatal chopping.
The police say that the violent ordeal transpired at 1 pm between two neighbouring families, involved in a nasty dispute over land, at a place called Handsome Tree.
Suresh Nandkishore, aka ‘Ravo’ perished in the attack. His father Gopaul Nandkishore, 52,is currently clinging to life at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Since the attack, he has shown no brain activity, relatives say. His brother Parmanand Nandkishore, 31, was chopped on his left hand.
According to reports, Suresh was with his dad and his brother building a fence around their property. It is alleged that their neighbour and his son, approached them and started to smash their heads in with a post that was meant to build the fence.
It is also alleged that the men also carried a cutlass, with which they went on a violent spree with the apparent intention to kill all three of the men. This is according to an emotional Gourie Nandkishore, Suresh’s mother.
Gourie said Parmanand raced home badly wounded. She said he related to her that “after them [the attackers] walk and come, Ravo said, ‘Dadee look these people a come fi fight we.’ Ravo know a scene was about to tek place, so he tek out he camera phone and start to film. (The attacker) seh kill all three a dem, and dem start fi cuss and all a dat. Then (the attacker) tell Ravo, that he de camera man, and he walk away, and dem come from behind and they hit he.”
Gourie said when Parmanand got home battered and told her that Suresh had died and his father might join him it was hard to believe. “(The attacker) run and scramble me husband, and he try for fight he, but (the attacker) son tek a cutlass and broadside he pun he face, and he a punch um all over he body,” Gourie said Parmanand related to her.
She said she was afraid to go the scene and after detectives finished their investigations and she saw her dead son, it was only then reality stepped in. Gourie said her son looked pale and all the blood was gone from his face.
Gourie said throughout the years, the attacker had pursued the land with great intensity. The woman said Gopaul inherited 75 acres of land from his father. The woman said they gave the attacker 25 acres of the land, but he was greedy for more. The woman said the matter went to Lands and Surveys and a survey proved that the land was Gopaul’s.
The attacker then pursued the issue in court, she said and the court ruled in the Nandkishores’ favour.
After the judgment, she said, the attacker kept lurking on the land. She said he told her he was going to end her family. His threat prompted the woman to lodge a complaint at the police station. Gourie got a restraining order, but the torment continued.
Gourie said she told her husband that if they were going to go there to build a fence, they should be accompanied by the police. “But they ignore me and this is what happen,” she lamented.
She said, “Like is so hard to explain. Like a can’t understand it, a really didn’t expect this to happen.”
The woman said she fears her husband will join her son and that is going to add another degree of devastation.
She described her son as a loving person and very intelligent. She said he was ambitious and what happened to him was sad. A post-mortem examination is to be conducted tomorrow.
