Neman Persaud, the man who the police say confessed to killing 86-year-old Agnes Dillon in her Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) abode during last week was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison.
Persaud, called ‘Boyee’, 26, a labourer of Mon Repos North, ECD appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court 1.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charge. The matter was adjourned to September 12.
Dillon, who lived alone in the bottom flat of a house at Lot 32 Mon Repos North, ECD was found stabbed to death in her bed on the morning of June 30th.
Persaud was arrested last Saturday. He was questioned during which he admitted to committing the crime. Two other suspects were arrested in relation to the matter but they were not charged.
Dillon’s landlord, Rookminie Goordat, 74, who lives in the top flat of the two-storey building where Dillon lived had said that she last saw the pensioner washing clothes on the afternoon on June 29th.
The woman said she did not see or hear anything unusual in the evening. How-ever, according to her, she felt something was “wrong” when she didn’t hear Dillon making her usual noises the next morning.
Goordat explained that every morning around 06:00 hrs Dillon would wake up, go outside to “wash her mouth” and then go back inside where she would loudly bang her dishes and furniture.
She said she called several persons, including her neighbour, to see why the woman was not up. “I say she must be fall, or in a coma,” she explained.
According to her, after several unsuccessful attempts to open the door, a neighbour went around to the side of the apartment where he peered through a “rotten” window and saw Dillon lying in a pool of blood.
The neighbour, according to her, pried open the door and when they realised that Dillon was dead, they called the police.
While the woman locked her door and two windows, there was a third opening that had only a part of a window, and it is believed to have been used by the murderer/s to gain entry into the apartment.
When asked if Dillon’ relatives were notified of her death, Goordat, said that the only relatives she knew the woman had were two sons who live overseas. She noted that the news of the murder was put on the “internet” and she hopes the woman’s children see it. She also disclosed that a young man would come by at times and buy groceries for Dillon. She said that she hadn’t seen the man in a while. The woman noted that she is scared for her own safety, since she also lives alone.
The death of Dillon had left residents puzzled as to why someone would want to kill her since she didn’t seem to possess anything of material value.
