Imran Ramsaywack, the 25-year-old Berbice labourer who was on trial for the murder of a United States-based Buxton woman in 2015 was on Wednesday sentenced to death for the crime.
The charge against Ramsaywack stated that between March 25th and March 26th, 2015, he murdered Samantha Benjamin.
Ramsaywack, who was represented by attorney Ravindra Mohabir, was on trial before a 12-member mixed jury and Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.
When the matter was called on Wednesday Justice Kissoon told the court that found that the woman’s death was the result of a cold-blooded, calculated robbery that eventuated in murder.
The judge further stated that he found no mitigating factors and in handing down the sentence considered the level of violence that was meted out to Benjamin. He also considered the lengths and efforts that the convict took to dispose Benjamin’s body, which was dismembered.
Justice Kissoon told the court that Ramsaywack was not fit to be reintegrated into society among “civilized citizens” and he then imposed the death sentence.
Benjamin was a US citizen and proprietor of a boutique in the Vendor’s Mall on Water Street. The dismembered trunk was found at the Annandale foreshore on March 26th, 2015. Later on the same day, the head, legs and arms were found at the foreshore.
