Two inmates of the New Amsterdam Prison who earlier this month were found guilty at the High Court in Berbice of the murder of a fellow prisoner in an attack at the facility in 2017, were yesterday both sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after thirty years.
In July, 2017, Dillon Boucher, 25, of Haslington Village, East Coast Demerara; Rooplall Abrahim, 24, of Lot 4 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice; and Ramchand Latchman, 23, of Number 65 Village, Corentyne, were charged with the murder of Neshan Jagmohan, 27.
Boucher and Latchman were unanimously found guilty by a jury following a trial before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Berbice.
In 2020, Abrahim, who testified against the two during the trial on behalf of the state, had opted to plead guilty to the killing of Neshan and was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Jagmohan, a cane harvester of Hampshire Squatting Area, and his older brother, Ramnarine Jagmohan, a farmer, of Belvedere Squatting Area, had both been remanded on a murder charge over the killing of the Hamp-shire Squatting Area, Corentyne businessman Devindra Deodat, 34, called ‘Dave,’ in October of 2013.
Having attended court on June 21, 2017, they returned to their cells at the New Amsterdam prison where they were attacked by inmates with improvised weapons.
The men were rushed to the hospital where Neshan was pronounced dead on arrival, while his brother was hospitalized for some time.
A post-mortem examination which was done on Neshan revealed that he died from puncture wounds to the heart, lungs, and kidneys.
During the trial, the state was represented by Attorney at Law, Muntaz Ali, and the court heard that the victim was stabbed 26 times.
Prior to sentencing yesterday, the deceased’s mother told the court that her daughter-in-law was forced to put her grandchildren in an orphanage as she could not afford to take care of them alone. The woman said her son had always promised to build a house for her, however, after his demise she said that she tried her best to build a small house for her grandchildren.
In sentencing the men, Justice Kissoon said, that the men planned and carried out the murder and used improvised weapons.
