Ashram Boodhoo, 50, also known as ‘Socks’, of Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara who was beaten in the head by his friend over a joke at a birthday party on July 3, died on Thursday after being discharged from the Infectious Diseases Hospital on August 20.
The regional commander of Division 4 ‘C’, Superintendent Krishna Ramana, told the Sunday Stabroek yesterday via telephone that sometime in July, Boodhoo attended his friend’s wife’s birthday party that took place somewhere in Non Pareil and the two men were imbibing alcohol. However, at the party the friend’s wife made a joke to her husband. As a result of the joke, the husband became annoyed and struck Boodhoo in the head.