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Guyanese ‘pirates’ face Dutch courts for countryman’s murder

Jan 05, 2011 News

Suriname is getting ready to prosecute three Guyanese, suspected pirates, who are accused of stabbing to death one of their own countryman back in September.
Bhojnarine ‘Fineman’ Persaud, Soekdew ‘Rakoe’ Persaud and Parmanand ‘Buckman’ Singh could all face up to 15 years imprisonment in the Dutch-speaking territory for the killing of Astraf ‘Tony Long Hair’ Yassin when the trial begins on January 13, according to yesterday’s Dagblad Suriname newspaper.
Suriname prosecutors are saying that the men on September 6, last, used a knife to kill Yassin.
The captain of Nanda SK 1183, a fishing boat in which the dead man was working, had claimed that his worker was kidnapped by unknown persons who then headed in the direction of Guyana.
On September 7, the crew of another fishing vessel spotted a body floating in Suriname waters, which was secured, and another passing city resident that was in the area reported the find to police.
Relatives from Guyana had travelled to Suriname and identified the body as Yassin.
Police believed that the accused decided to rob the fishing boat of its vegetables and in the melee kidnapped Yassin after which he was killed and dumped in the river.
The Guyana embassy in Suriname had become involved in the matter amidst questions of where the incident had actually happened.
Police were building their case on statements of the suspects that Yassin was stabbed after he started to fight back. He managed to jump overboard and made it to a mud bank, about a mile and half from Matapicakreek. It is believed that Yassin bled to death there before his body disappeared under the rising seawater.

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