Two Corentyne men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were read a charge of murder in the case of a man who was found buried in a shallow grave in the backlands of Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne.
Ghowcharran Persaud, 37, of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne reportedly went on a fishing trip with two friends identified as ‘Amir’ and ‘Bharat’ three Thursdays ago. When he did not return home as planned, a search was launched. His body was eventually discovered in a shallow grave at the Crabwood Creek backlands.
A post-mortem examination revealed that Persaud’s cause of death was an incised wound to his head and neck and gunshot injuries to his neck.
Bharat Persaud, 30, a security guard of Lot 102 Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne, and Amir Nazirullah of Lot 122 Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek appeared via Zoom at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh where they were charged with murder. It is alleged that on Saturday December 16, they murdered Ghowcharran Persaud.
The men were not required to plead to the indictable charge and were remanded to prison. They will return to court on January 25 at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
Ghowcharran Persaud’s brother, Pravesh Persaud had told Stabroek News that his brother had visited his house and told him that he was going fishing. “Anywhere he a go he does come tell me who he a go with and he seh dem a go catch fish and he seh he a go with Amir. He pack up he bag and Amir come and collect he,” Pravesh Persaud said.
According to the brother, the following Saturday morning ‘Amir’ visited his home and told him that Bharat had shot Persaud. “Amir say that Bhrrat fire five shot pon them and when me brother fall down he run fa shoot Amir and Amir run,” the brother related.
Amir reportedly claimed that he rode his motorcycle with a punctured wheel to escape.
On Sunday, a search party which included police, ventured to the location where they discovered what appeared to be blood on the ground.
It was not until that Tuesday, however, that family members found Ghowcharran Persaud’s body buried in a shallow grave near a tree, a short distance from where what appeared to be blood was found. “Me mother tell me how me cousin walk, walk and then walk pon am and feel and them find the grave under leaves next to one big tree,” Pravesh Persaud had related.
