Family members of Danrasie ‘Carmen’ Ganesh, the elderly woman who was bludgeoned to death at Montrose earlier this month, yesterday denied that a close relative had hired the killer who was nabbed by police on Saturday.
“I don’t understand how he’s making such an accusation towards him [the accused relative]. It’s … false,” Ganesh’s siblings told Stabroek News yesterday. According to them, their relative who was named by the suspected killer as the person who hired him is being wrongfully blamed.
“There are a lot of little mistakes that show you that is not he. First off I hear they saying he got two sons and a daughter but he only got two sons. It’s the other man got two sons and a daughter. Is the other man had a problem with the property and would want the documents,” one said, explaining that their relative had a very close relationship with Ganesh.
“He was even in the will and he said that he didn’t want to be and to give someone else. He has his own house and his own family, why would he do that,” they further questioned.
According to the sisters, their relative who is accused of being involved, had seen the man they suspect the next day on the road and had followed him. “I remember the next day I went outside and I saw a strange man by the tree looking into the house like he was looking for someone but I didn’t see the video so I couldn’t tell if it was he so I went and call [the accused relative] and he seh it was he. He run back in the yard and jump on he bike and follow the man somewhere,” one of the relatives explained.
While the murder suspect gave an almost accurate account of what happened on the day of the murder, the family members pointed out a few loopholes that they think indicate the innocence of their relative. They explained that Ganesh was not living in the house she was attacked and killed in and as such, would not have the documents that were supposedly being sought. They said that their relative would have known that.
Relatives had discovered Ganesh’s body in a pool of blood in the kitchen of the bottom flat of the two-storey Montrose house, for which she had been caretaker for some time. An autopsy revealed that the elderly woman died as a result of strangulation and brain haemorrhaging.
Security cameras recorded the killing and following days of surveillance and careful planning, the suspected killer was nabbed by police on Saturday. The man told investigators that one of the woman’s relatives hired him to carry out the brutal crime.
