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Sep 28, 2015 News
– elderly couple in property dispute
Police are investigating allegations by a 63-year-old man that he is the target of a murder plot in which his estranged wife has twice tried to have him killed.
The man, who is from the Corentyne, has said that he only escaped death because the individuals that his wife hired were confidence tricksters who pretended to be hit men. The alleged plot is said to be linked to a property dispute.
But the man says he has received reports that his wife is making a third try at getting him killed. He fears that he might not be so fortunate this time around.
He had initially complained that police did not appear to be taking his allegations seriously.
A senior police official confirmed yesterday that detectives have received a detailed report from the man, and that they intend to question his wife about the allegations.
“He came and gave us a detailed statement day before yesterday… we are checking out that matter.”
The official said that the couple was previously before the court.
Describing himself as a domestic violence victim, the man told Kaieteur News that he has been married for some eight years to his second wife. He said at the time, he was a multi-millionaire, and that the couple had a joint bank account.
“We were living very, very good,” he said. “And then it take a sudden turn.”
That “sudden turn,” according to him, happened four years ago. He claimed that without his knowledge, his wife withdrew all the cash from their joint account.
She also took him to court to get half of their assets. According to him, a Judge gave him the matrimonial two-flat home at Berbice, while she was given a Jeep. He also agreed to give her $300,000.
“She said that the marriage would work if I gave her the Jeep and $300,000 and that she wouldn’t torment me anymore. I gave her the Jeep and promised to give her the entire $300,000 in a year.”
But he said he still wanted the marriage to work, and took his spouse on a vacation to the US.
But when they returned to Guyana the wife still demanded the $300,000 he had promised and when a year passed and he hadn’t delivered it all, she took him to court.
At this time, the marriage had deteriorated to the point where they were living in separate sections of the home.
Then, according to the man, she tried to have him killed.
‘HIT MEN’
He said that last year, two men snatched him from outside his home and took him by vehicle to the back of a Corentyne community.
But he said that the men then explained that his wife had hired them to kill him, but that they had no intention of doing so.
“They told me to cooperate with them. They said that they didn’t want to harm me, they just wanted her money.”
So, according to him, the men tied him up, threw tomato paste on him, ordered him to lie still, and took photographs of his ‘ bloodstained body,’ to give to his wife. They then untied him.
He said that the bogus ‘hit men’ also promised to give him a recording of themselves and his wife, but never did.
He said that the following day, his wife discovered that he was still very much alive. She flew into a rage.
“YOU AIN’T DEAD?”
“She see me and she start cursing on the road,” he said. She say, ‘You ain dead? They ain kill you?’”
The man told me that he visited a Berbice police station and told a senior rank about the plot on his life. He also showed the cop the photographs of his ‘body.’ But he said that the policeman chased him out of the station and told him not to return.
“He said that he can’t believe that this woman would do that because he knows her very long.”
He claimed that his wife made a second attempt on his life a few months ago.
Again, he was at home when two men came calling at his gate. He said that the men showed him a forged affidavit that his wife had produced in court when she was seeking spousal support. He claimed that the men also produced a recording of a conversation between them and his wife.
Like the first two ‘hit-men,’ he said that the visitors revealed that they were hired to abduct and kill him, but had no intention of going through with the plan. “They said that they were con-men, not hit men.”
He said that the men took him to a house on the East Bank of Demerara. Again, he was tied up and had to pretend to be dead. This time, his wife sent one of her friends to see his ‘body.’ Photographs were also taken of the ‘corpse.’
After the wife’s friend saw the ‘body’, she reportedly contacted the wife by phone and said “give the people the money, the man is dead.”
He was told that his wife handed over $2.2M to the ‘hit men.’
According to the man, the next day, he overheard his wife and the same friend asking neighbours if they had heard that he was dead.
Later, on seeing that he was still alive, his wife allegedly accused him of ‘sticking her up’ and forcing her to withdraw $2.2M from the bank.
He claimed that a male relative of his wife also threatened to kill him. That matter is reportedly engaging the attention of the police,
By November, he had moved out of his own house after his wife paid a neighbor to harass him.
But he said that a few weeks ago, an Attorney representing his wife served him with a legal document which stated that the house he owned was no longer his.
He was told that he had a week to remove his belongings from the property.
According to the husband, he subsequently learned that his wife had sold the house to a relative. Reportedly too destitute to hire an Attorney, he said he turned to Legal Aid for assistance to get his property back.
Meanwhile, he lives at a friend, and ekes out a living by selling the few vegetables he plants. Meanwhile, he said he’s still paying off the $300,000 that he had agreed to give his spouse.
And he said he still fears that his estranged spouse will make yet another attempt to get rid of him and has taken to staying indoors as soon as it is nightfall.
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