Two men have confessed to investigators that they were a part of a five-man fishing crew that was behind the recent piracy attack which left two Corentyne fishermen dead and two missing.
According to a police source, investigators are looking for three other perpetrators who are said to be from Everton Village, Corentyne; Belvedere Village, Corentyne; and Cromarty Village, Corentyne.
As of yesterday afternoon, Stabroek News was told that investigators had received information that the three suspects had returned to sea in an effort to evade arrest. However, efforts were being made to apprehend them.
On October 5, four Corentyne fishermen headed out to sea to ply their trade on a boat – SARA 1. However, one week after leaving home the men’s boat was found aback of Cromarty Village, Corentyne, while the bodies of Otto Lamar Petrie, 20, of Lot 9 Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant and Kawal Kissoon, also known as ‘Ajai’, 36, of Lot 233 Letter Kenny, Corentyne, were discovered days apart along the Mahaicony and Abary foreshore.
Boat captain, Vishnu Seeram, also known as ‘Kevin’, 20, of Port Mourant, Corentyne and Marvin Tamasar, also known as ‘Buddy’, 20, of Lot 305 Port Mourant, Corentyne are still missing.
Stabroek News was told yesterday, that according to the men’s confessions, they attacked SARA 1 on the high seas in an effort to rob the fishermen of their catch. However, the now dead and missing fishermen put up a fight which led to the five suspects murdering them and dumping their bodies overboard.
The two suspects were arrested on Friday. After intense interrogation the men broke their silence and confessed their roles in the murder to investigators.
According to information gathered, the five suspects who are all fishermen also ventured out to sea on a vessel owned by a man from Rosignol, West Coast Berbice, but after failing to get a big catch the suspects then decided to attack the boat closest to them which was SARA 1.
The two suspects told police that after the four men put up a fight they chopped them in their heads and about their bodies after which they tied the fishermen’s hands behind their backs and feet together. The suspects then cut loose SARA 1 to float away, placed the fishermen in their boat and proceeded eight miles from the point of attack where they dumped their victims’ bodies overboard.
As of yesterday police have prepared a file which has been sent for advice in the hope that the two suspects could be placed before the courts to face charges sometime today.
Meanwhile, autopsies which were conducted on the bodies of the men who were found revealed that both died from drowning but also suffered massive head injuries prior to drowning.
