A West Coast Berbice (WCB) man was last evening fatally beaten while his son sustained head and other injuries after they were attacked by five villagers from a nearby village who claimed that the older man had broken into their house and stolen jewellery.
Dead is Bheim Evans, 54, a labourer. His son, Tishan Persaud, 21, a labourer was injured. They both are from Number 11 Village, WCB. Persaud sustained injuries to his left arm, head and back.
Two suspects are in police custody for questioning, while investigators are searching for the others identified by Persaud to be residents of Number 12 Village, WCB
Persaud told Stabroek News today that he went to a club in Bath Settlement, WCB, and while he was heading over to his sister’s house, the group of five men approached him. “Them snatch me and start to beat me with cutlass, rope and chain”, the injured man relayed.
According to him, the men continued to beat him until his father arrived. “When my father come them say is my father them want and is me father went in one of them house and take a chain and silver chain, gold chain and eight gold ring and them start to beat him.”
Persaud said that at that point the group of men continuously beat both him and his father but after they realized that his father had become unconscious they ordered him to assist them to remove his father’s body from the area.
“Them beat de man bad and kick him in the face and bruk one of his ribs. Them done beat my father and them take my father and carry him in front a lady house and she start fight that them can’t put he there and them beat me fa heist my father and carry he another place”, Persaud said.
According to him, the attackers told him to take his father home but after they left he rushed to the Fort Wellington Police Station and returned with lawmen who carried his father to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital.
Evans, a father of 12, died while receiving treatment at the hospital.
