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Feb 13, 2013 News
Rawle Samuels, the man accused of stabbing four-year-old Jamal Naranjan to death on Wednesday last, yesterday made an appearance at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court in front of presiding Magistrate Ann McLennan
The diminutive Samuels appeared briefly in the dock, before Magistrate McLennan adjourned the case to February 27. The man was neatly dressed, with his locks shorn and a blank look on his face.
After the adjournment, Neisha Naranjan, mother of the now deceased Jamal Naranjan who had been sitting in the courtroom, ran out of the building sobbing.
In the courtyard there was even more drama, as the relatives of both Samuels and Naranjan engaged in a fiery verbal battle, as Samuels was whisked away by Police escort.
During the heated exchange, a relative of Samuels was overheard shouting to Naranjan, “You know he de violent, yet you bail he.” According to reports, the accused was last year charged with wounding a female with whom he shared a relationship. The man had reportedly broken the woman’s jaw with a hammer.
Several residents who had turned up at the court to follow the proceedings, dispersed immediately after Samuels had exited the compound.
The small community of Buck Hill on Wismar was last Wednesday rocked by the brutal murder of Jamal Naranjan a four–year-old Nursery School child, who was stabbed repeatedly about the body, allegedly by Samuels. The man had reportedly moments earlier raped a young female at the house where she resided with the child’s mother, Neisha Naranjan.
It was reported that the child had just returned home from school, when he came under attack from the man, with whom his mother shared a relationship. That relationship was severed five days prior to the incident, Kaieteur News understands.
A woman who said she was going down the hill, on the day of the incident shortly before the fatal stabbing, said she happened to look back and saw the man with a long knife in his hand chasing the young woman he had allegedly sexually assaulted.
After he did not catch her, he snatched the little boy (Jamal) and hoisted him on his shoulder.
The woman, who had in the meantime made her way to the Wismar Police Station, later told media operatives that she had seen Samuels making ‘cuffing motions’, while the child’s legs were kicking in the air, as he lay on the ground.
The child was later taken to the Linden Hospital Complex with multiple stab wounds, including one to his abdomen from where his intestines protruded. He later died at the institution.
Irate residents in light of the incident condemned ranks at the Wismar Police Station, for the tardy manner with which they responded to reports of what was transpiring on Buck Hill, even before the child was killed. The Wismar Police Station is a stone’s throw away, or less than ten-minute walk from where the incident occurred
Many residents are of the view that the child’s life could have been saved, had the police acted promptly and diligently.
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