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May 03, 2014 News
– wife claims robbery, relatives finger woman’s lover
The peace and tranquility of the small community of Haslington New Scheme on the East Coast of Demerara was shattered early yesterday morning with the brutal hacking to death of 40-year-old fisherman Chetram Bharrat.
While his 36-year-old wife Lomattie Ramdat, who was also chopped about her body is claiming that they were attacked by two bandits who carried away $500,000, relatives and neighbours are almost convinced that it was the work of the woman’s lover who has conveniently vanished.
Bharrat was found lying dead on his blood soaked bed with several deep chop wounds to his head and other parts of his body minutes after his wife ran out of the house and alerted neighbours around 04:00 hours.
Police in a statement yesterday said that their initial investigations indicate that two men, both of whom were armed with cutlasses, entered the 418 Ninth Street, Haslington New Scheme home of Chetram Bharrat and his reputed wife Lomattie Ramdat, 36, through a window.
The men demanded cash and jewellery during which the two victims were chopped about their bodies.
Speaking with Kaieteur News from her hospital bed Ramdat said, “Me and me husband been sleeping and we wake up and two men just start chopping. They chop me and they chop he.”
The woman told this newspaper that she tried to block the blows but received two chops on her hand and then fainted.
According to the woman, when she came to, she saw her husband lying motionless on his bed. She managed to make it to a neighbour to whom she related what had transpired. The police were subsequently contacted.
Gopaul Ramkumar, the couple’s neighbour to the east, said that he did not hear any screams when the attack was taking place but was only awakened by Ramdat’s knocking and calling his name.
He said that since the couple was known to have disagreements whenever they imbibed liquor, he thought that they were having another quarrel, so at first he was not too keen to get out of his bed.
“She call and seh, ‘come boy, open de door.’ When me open de door, me see she cover in blood and me nah know wha fuh do. Me put she fuh sit down and me go and me call dem other neighbour,” Ramkumar told this newspaper.
He said the woman claimed that thieves had attacked them and her husband was lying dead on his bed.
She was eventually rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation by her 18-year-old son, Avinash, who had raced to the scene from Clonbrook several miles away after being informed about the tragedy.
As news of the incident spread through the village, several residents who had already gotten out of their beds at the break of day, converged on the scene and began expressing views on how the couple lived.
Kaieteur News learnt that Bharrat worked as a fisherman in neighbouring Suriname and would spend months away from his home, leaving his wife and two teenage children.
Relatives said that he recently returned home from a four-month stint at sea, with a substantial amount of money.
According to the relatives, Bharrat’s absence resulted in his wife engaging in an affair with another villager, who they strongly believe was responsible for the attack.
The dead man’s sister-in-law, Lalita (his wife’s sister), told a tale of infidelity on the part of Ramdat.
This caused the couple’s two children to move out and reside with her at Clonbrook.
She said that while the brutal death of Bharrat was a shock, it was not unexpected.
“They were threatened…A boy name Errol did threaten de two children and dey father. De mother have an affair with dis boy,” Lalita said.
She informed that the man had attacked them before, even pouring poison into a barrel that contained the water they had to consume.
That matter was reported to the police.
“Is he do dis! The night when he de come and threaten me and me father, he come with a cutlass and he threaten fuh kill me and me brother…He seh dat how he gon kill me and me father before de year done,” the dead man’s 17-year-old daughter Jasmattie Bharrat called ‘Nikita,’ told this newspaper.
Almost everyone at the scene blamed the woman’s affair for the incident. Even her sister, Lalita, had nothing good to say.
“Because of the threats, de children had to come away by me,” she said, adding that she even advised Bharrat to end his relationship with her sister for his own safety.
As for the couple’s 18-year-old son, Avinash, his mother’s version of what transpired sounds a bit farfetched.
He said that firstly, all the doors of the house were secured and there were no signs of forced entry.
“She tell me dat when de men dem come in, she couldn’t ah holler or do nothing, she just had to block de chops. She say dat de two men is two tall people,” Avinash Bharrat said.
He too is convinced that his mother’s lover was responsible for his father’s death.
“He get people fuh do it. De last time he try fuh kill me father but he ain’t get through because he run away.”
The young man believes that his mother’s lover had facilitated the killers by distracting the two dogs his father reared at the house.
Neighbours said that they did not hear any barking from the dogs, although they usually made a lot of noise whenever strangers entered the yard.
They believe that the man used food to lure the dogs away.
“Fuss thing, dem dog dis bad wha da man gat. Earlier he been at de shop and buy sardine and bread and milk and he feed dem dogs,” a neighbour told this newspaper.
“Whenever she (Ramdat) drink and does cuss out, you does hear she voice till away so. How come you nah hear she holler when dem ah chop she?” another neighbour said.
A close relative of the woman’s lover contacted this newspaper via telephone all the way from the United States of America and also expressed the belief that he was the mastermind.
Bharrat was described as a very kind person who was very generous to his wife and children.
But the same could not be said about his wife; even from her children.
“Like me nah gat no feeling fuh she, she don’t even talk to we. She gat fuh talk de truth. If she nah talk de truth me nah know wha go happen,” her son said.
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