Colin Alleyne, the man who allegedly bludgeoned and strangled elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, was yesterday charged with her murder.
Alleyne, 23, of 77 Cemetery Road, Timehri, was arraigned at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court, where he was not required to plead to the indictable charge that on August 1st, 2015 at Montrose, East Coast Demerara, he murdered Ganesh.
The unrepresented Alleyne kept the court waiting for almost an entire hour as he refused to leave the adjoining Sparendaam Police Station until the police officers provided him with his own clothing.
Alleyne, who was kept in a holding cell in the police station, could have been heard all the way out on the road as he continuously verbally abused the lawmen.
The ruckus continued with Alleyne banging loudly on the wall of the station and urging the cameramen to take his photo when he was ready to come outside.
After police fulfilled the man’s request by giving him his own clothing, a subdued Alleyne appeared from the cell with a big smile on his face. He made no attempts to hide his face from the cameras. As he made his way to the courtroom, which was filled with relatives of the dead woman, he was heard saying, “Make space for the ‘Real G’ to pass.”
After granting the prosecution’s request for four weeks to facilitate the completion of the case file, Magistrate Zamilla Ally ordered that he be remanded until his next court appearance on September 27.
Ganesh’s body was found 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 reportedly as a result of the severe beating she received at the hands of her killer.
Fortunately for the police, the entire attack was caught on CCTV cameras in the house. The footage showed the elderly woman being attacked by an unknown male suspect, who launched a surprise attack on her. The suspect, now identified as Alleyne was seen continuously beating and strangling the woman throughout what was first described as a robbery.
Alleyne, who went into hiding after a still photo of him from the surveillance footage was circulated in the press, was arrested on Saturday. At the time he was reportedly wearing the same clothes he had been wearing when he carried out the attack.
It was while in custody that the man reportedly confessed to killing the woman and claimed that he was hired by one of Ganesh’s close relatives to break into the house and find documents for the property, which is presently the subject of a dispute. He said he was paid $700,000 by the relative.
The man told investigators that after taking documents he had found to the relative, who was waiting outside, he was instructed to go back inside and retrieve the surveillance footage. However, instead of taking a disk from a DVR, he found and collected a disk from a DVD player. Family members have since publicly defended the implicated relative.
