Two suspects were arrested late yesterday afternoon and police say they have since confessed to murdering 76-year-old David Ramkissoon, who was found dead with his throat slit more than one month ago.
A police source told Stabroek News that acting on information received, suspects Godfrey Gill and Sherwin Clark, who both hail from Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, were arrested separately yesterday.
The body of Ramkissoon, called ‘Dillip’ and ‘Shortman,’ was discovered in the bottom flat of his Lot 61 Better Hope South, house, around 11pm on August 21 by his son, Anand Ramkissoon.
His house was ransacked. The police had suspected that he was a victim of robbery since an undisclosed amount of cash was missing.
The man was last seen alive around 1.30 pm on August 21 by residents of the community. It is suspected that the elderly man knew his attacker/s since neighbours heard no suspicious sounds.
The dead man’s daughter-in-law, Nalini, had related to this newspaper that she left him relaxing in the hammock with the house tightly secured. According to her, hours later, she tried calling the landline about two times but the calls when unanswered. “I try calling he to make sure he hot up the food and eat but I didn’t get he. The phone ring out… I didn’t study because I say that he mus’e gone and lime at the road end as usual,” she had said.
When they returned home, the house was completely dark, which they found to be quite unusual. Nalini said her husband, Anand, went to go check on his father when he saw the house ransacked and his father dead.
There was a hole in the back fence, which the family suspects the bandit/s used to gain entry to the property.
