Accused in fatal stabbing to face murder charge

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that a murder charge be laid against the suspect in the murder of Ramkarran Mohanlall, who was stabbed to death last Wednesday evening.

As a result, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum yesterday told Stabroek News that the suspect, who was discharged from the West Demerara Regional Hospital on Thursday after a suicide attempt, will be charged on Monday.

Mohanlall, 33, of Annandale South, East Coast Demerara, died last week Wednesday after he was involved in an argument with his wife’s brother-in-law.

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, which led to a fight.

“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, while noting that the man stabbed her husband four times about his body.