The suspect into the murder of Ramkarran Mohanlall, who was stabbed to death last Wednesday evening, is currently a patient at the West Demerara Regional Hospital under police guard after he attempted to take his own life.
This newspaper was informed by a source close to the investigation that the suspect consumed a poisonous substance on Thursday and was admitted to the hospital.
Mohanlall, 33, of Annandale South, East Coast Demerara died on Wednesday evening after he was involved in an argument with his wife’s brother-in-law.
A police press release on the incident stated that Mohanlall was involved in an argument with a man at around 11 pm Wednesday during which he was stabbed about his body. He was rushed to the George-town Public Hospital (GPH), where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Latchmie Singh, wife of the dead man, had told this newspaper that her brother-in-law, who lives at the lower flat of the house where she was staying, saw her husband and started an argument with him.
“They always had issues between them and they would always argue with one another when they see each other. Only last year he [her brother-in-law] took a hockey stick and lash he [Mohanlall] up on his hands several times and ever since then it has been worse between them,” Singh said. After the argument started on Wednesday between the two men, she said, a fight ensued. “I was right there on the bridge and I keep telling them to stop but none of them was listening…. After one time, they start back again and this time they fall on the ground and Mohanlall was on top of my brother-in-law and I try to rush to he and stop it ’cause I see the knife but it was too fast,” she had said.
She said the man had pulled out a knife from his waist and stabbed her husband four times about his body.
