Corentyne woman found murdered in home

Oct 16, 2011 News

-husband detained

By Leon Suseran

Police have detained an elderly rice farmer in connection with the murder of his 39-year-old reputed wife, whose body was found in her Number 48 Village, Corentyne home on Friday.
The victim’s reputed husband, who is in his late 70s, reportedly made the discovery after returning from the back dam.
Hansranee Sewdat, also called ‘Sharda’, was found dead in her home just after noon. Police said that the body bore a wound to the throat.
The discovery was made by her reputed husband, popular rice farmer, Roy Persaud, and his eight-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. According to reports, the body was lying near a sliding door at the entrance of the house. Kaieteur News understands that there was hardly any blood near the corpse and that the house was not ransacked.

Dead: Hansranee Sewdat

Police also reportedly removed a chopper, an X- Rated magazine and a piece of cloth in a plastic bag from the scene.
It is alleged that Persaud and his daughter had last seen Sewdatt alive earlier that day before leaving to go to sell paddy.
“Them leff and go sell paddy and then mommy told them to go buy soap powder and bleach. When them come back, they said they forgot. They said when they go back they will buy it,” a relative told Kaieteur News.
According to the woman’s sister, Basmattie “Golo” Sagadawyan, she received a phone call from her son, Devin, shortly after 17:00 hrs on Friday. The son told her to call Sharda’s residence since “there were a lot of policemen there.”
But when Sagadawyan called her sister’s home, no one answered at first. She said that Persaud, the reputed husband, eventually answered. “When he answered the phone, he take long to talk.”
She alleged that the reputed husband told her “You can’t talk to her now; you will talk to her later”. She said the phone “cut off”. Other attempts to reach the woman failed.
Kaieteur News learned that police were already at the residence when this happened.
Sagadawyan then sent her son to the residence and the son was informed that his aunt was “dead upstairs”.
According to the sister, there was “hardly any blood around” where the body was found. “None wall ain’t get no blood, no floor ain’t get no blood”, her sister said.
The body was then taken to the Skeldon Hospital Mortuary. The slain woman’s husband, with whom she lived for 12 years, was then arrested and taken to the Number 51 Police Station.
He was taken back to the home yesterday and questioned by several CID officers. “Them lock the gate and them get he in there. Them get he in the house. Me ain’t know what them doing so long”, the victim’s sister said.
The woman said she was allowed to speak with Persaud and enquired from him as to what to do with the body and if the family in Black Bush should hold a wake.
The sister alleged that her sister was often “ill-treated,” and that she had stopped talking with the entire family shortly after she started to live with Persaud.
“She doesn’t want to talk she story…but when she a call me on the phone, she does tell me plenty thing. Me tell she, ‘Gyal you buy that, you have to wear it.’ I does encourage her. You’re not the first, you’re not the last.’”
“She does call me from phone many days and tell me she does meet ill treatment but she said she don’t want to leff. Me ain’t know if them a beat ‘matty’ or fight matty…I left her to live her life”.
She wants the police to find the killer. Her sister, she said, was a peaceful woman who regularly attended mandirs and “didn’t live bad with anybody”.
One person who spoke on the condition of anonymity stated that a suspect in the matter “like to break up people’s home and like deh with young girls”.