The two suspects who were arrested last Friday over the murder of 76-year-old David Ramkissoon are to be charged today and the police are looking for a third person they have implicated.
Acting Crime Chief Hugh Jessemy yesterday told Stabroek News that the case file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) who advised that the duo be charged with murder.
In the meantime, Jessemy said, efforts are being made to locate the third suspect.
The body of Ramkissoon, called ‘Dillip’ and ‘Shortman,’ was discovered in the bottom flat of his Lot 61 Better Hope South, house with his throat slit around 11 pm 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 two suspects, Godfrey Gill and Sherwin Clark, who both hail from Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, were arrested separately on Friday afternoon.
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. The family had left to visit a creek along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. According to her, hours later, she called the landline but the calls when unanswered.
When they returned home, the house was completely dark, which they found to be quite unusual. Nalini said her husband, Anand, went to check on his father and found 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.
