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May 28, 2013 News
Two men accused of murdering 17-year-old Sasenarine ‘Suraj’ Persaud, of Number 70 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, on April 29, 2012 were both committed to stand trial in the next sitting of criminal assizes of the Berbice High Court after the court ruled that a prima facie case had been made out against them by Magistrate Krisendat Persaud sitting in the Springlands Magistrate’s court.
The men, Dhanram ‘Chris’ Rajpersaud, 39, and Yogeshwar ‘Sham’ Dhaniram, 31, both of Number 70 Village, are charged with murdering the youth after he intervened in a confrontation between the men and his stepfather.
Persaud was stabbed and chopped across his abdomen and other parts of his body.
Persaud’s stepfather, Notan Persaud Roopnarine, called ‘Narresh’, 42, was heading home when the two men, who were having a weekend Bar B Que at their No 70 Public Road residence, stopped him and started to have a conversation.
An argument soon developed and became heated.
It is alleged that the men then took Roopnarine into their yard and started to “beat him up”.
Young Persaud, who was performing an errand for his mother, on seeing the men beating up his stepfather, approached the fight and tried to intervene. The men then turned on Persaud and allegedly stabbed and chopped him about his body.
Persaud was stabbed and chopped across his abdomen.
He was picked up by family members and rushed to the Skeldon Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
One of the men had slashed his throat and was admitted a patient in the New Amsterdam hospital.
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