What manner of “human” cracks an old lady’s skull, tramples her battered body, perhaps strangles her, then drinks a beverage from her refrigerator?
The prevailing, “conventional wisdom” explaining these bestial savageries, is that the perpetrator most likely used some type of powerful narcotic before such acts. In truth the perpetrator(s) who mutilated and beheaded the remigrant businesswoman on the East Coast, Demerara earlier this year did admit to snorting lots of marijuana before that carnival of fatal bestiality.
One paper’s account of Granny Carmen’s brutal murder of a few days ago made even “hardened” me recoil. I have reason to quote that report, in part, here: “… when Carmen (77) walked into the kitchen the killer attacked, striking the (old) woman to her head (with the wrench/spanner). Even though she attempted to block the blow, her efforts were in vain. The single blow that connected to the woman’s head floored her.
“The killer then tied her neck with a piece of cloth and he trampled her. The woman lay on the ground helpless as the man calmly searched the house… he periodically trampled the woman and struck her with the spanner every time he passed her body.”
A female relative who viewed the entire surveillance tape revealed that the killer opened a fridge, drank juice, then wiped his face with a towel before continuing to batter the grandmother. Now if you re-read just the above account slowly, you get the cold-blooded nature of a heinous homicide which, seemingly, our young killers are capable of.
My concerned alarm here is what these crimes indicate about the rotteness of our society now capable of producing such bandit-savages. It speaks to use of drugs, disregard for females, ignorance of education, reasoning, tolerance; of economic “reasons” (??).
Don’t even try to persuade me of motive for such type “old-lady” murders. Rather, get the intellectual authors” who can contract such mindless beasts!
But what follows when the surveillance tapes, even eye-witnesses, assist the detectives to capture and charge the murderer(s)?
In defence of murder, death…
One movie which has become a personal favourite is “Law-abiding citizen” starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. I just loved how a husband who saw his wife and daughter raped and murdered, turned American law and “injustice” upon its head. (Until he got excessively out of hand!) We in good old Guyana 2015 are “civilized” signatories to international conventions whereby we cannot execute convicted murderers. That’s not a deterrent, I’m told. We must not become as the murderers. Only the Christian God should take lives. And the killers! But why can’t we whip a killer like Granny’s murderer – at least?
I am proud to have explored, as a concerned layman-citizen, the myriad of legal technicalities that set suspects free, after poor police work and sub-standard prosecution in the Court. Many a time, good early detective work is compromised, wasted. Some committed defence attorney will defend Granny Carmen’s murderer. If no confession, without “torture”, the lawyer will no doubt question the authenticity of the surveillance pictures. (Were they “doctored”?)
The “usual legal ramifications” will occupy a Court’s consideration because all doubts must be in Granny’s killer’s favour. Then (i) delay in building, bringing the case, (ii) mis-direction by the judge, (iii) perjury by some witness; (iv) lack of “judicial captaincy” by the judge (on appeal); more material mis-direction – and the whole lot. Poor prosecutors. Our system of justice seems to favour the crooks and clever lawyers but, I’m told, it’s the best we’ve got. We’re civilized. The murderers of our grannies are not. They should face justice in North Korea, the Sudan, Northern Nigeria, China or Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, poor Public Security New Minister has to threaten and to promise. I hope though that by say February next he equips rural stations with computers, patrol cars, radio sets, profiles of all villages and that Social Protection assists him to identify areas of potential conflicts, even homicides. Poor Minister Khemraj. But all of us are involved – or should be.
Emancipation: Two Lighter Sides?
Over the past two Fridays I’ve contributed to the Emancipation anniversary by publishing Historian David Granger’s dissertation on his “alienation of Afro-Guyanese”, delivered 17 years ago.
Next week I’ll be more serious “than today’s important trivia. Mind you, my two points, raised within here before, are mighty interesting.
Firstly I remind that there must be a few thousand Afro-Guyanese here whose fore-parents were never slaves! Yes, because years after 1838 African Immigrants came to these shores looking for work. They were taken off potential slave ships or came straight from Sierra Leone, etc.
I love this second trivia: When male Africans abandoned the plantations after the 1838 Emancipation, many of them had no ready liquid cash to assist their freed lady-friends. The Indian bound, indentured fellows had! So the “coolies” – the contracted Indo-labourers, courted the “Negresses” Guyana’s first douglahs – post-emancipation! Governor Light even wrote his Secretary of State in Britain about this remarkable sociological “development” Ho-Ho.
Just imagine.
*1) Informant Sean Hinds’ attorney seems to be Mr Nigel Hughes – prominent, competent lawyer associated with the political party, AFC. Public Security Minister Ramjattan is also AFC. Ho-ho, not one thing wrong with all that.
*2) Even at my post-70 age, I have to learn absolute, extreme tolerance to listen to Messrs Rohee, Luncheon and Ramotar. Or just switch them off.
*3) Repair the schools now as the Budget unfolds Monday. Fill the holes in the Capital’s main roads now too. Auto body works men are smiling. Not poor motorists.
`Til next week!
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