A Venezuelan man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Kilcoy labourer Chetram Ramjattan who went missing two Saturdays ago.
His body was discovered in a drain under a clump of grass where the accused along other Venezuelan nationals were residing.
Simone Wills, 28, appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Peter Hugh via Zoom where it was stated that between Saturday, November, 25, and Thursday November, 30 at Fyrish Village, Corentyne he murdered Ramjattan.
Wills was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge and was remanded to prison. He will return to court on December, 27.
The body of Ramjattan, 43, a labourer of Lot 53 Kilcoy Settlement, Corentyne, was discovered on Thursday last and although riddled with chop and stab injuries a post-mortem examination revealed that he died as a result of a fractured skull and blunt trauma to the head.
Kilcoy residents had said that a group of Venezuelan men and women along with their children were residing in Kilcoy, Corentyne and were working on the chicken farm.
Ramjattan’s sister, Kamaldai Ramjattan explained that tw0 Saturdays ago her brother, who lives two streets away from the Venezuelans was walking out of the main cross street when some children pelted him.
She said her brother entered the yard to complain but the woman began cursing him and used an iron rod to hit him.
According to the woman, her brother then went to his younger’s brother house located in the same village and told him what had transpired. “He brother tell he let he na bother with them and let he go home.”
Ramjattan was on his way home when he was attacked after requesting a cigarette from the Venezuelan men.
“… when he pass and he see them smoking he ask for a cigarette and them call he in to give he and that’s when them beat him and kill him and throw him in the drain at the back.”
After Ramjattan did not return home on Saturday evening his family began searching but it wasn’t until Sunday morning when Ramjattan’s brother confronted the Venezuelans that he became aware of what had transpired.
“Me brother catch one of them and tell them them got to know what happen and then he told my brother that them kill he and throw he in the drain under the grass”, the sister relayed.
The family then immediately contacted ranks at the Albion Police Station who ventured to the location and discovered the man’s body in the drain located in the yard under a clump of grass, after which the alleged attackers who were at the location were placed in custody.
