Haslington tragedy…Chopped woman admits lover had threatened to kill husband

May 04, 2014 News

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Lomattie Ramdat, the 36-year-old woman who sustained chops about her body when two men allegedly hacked her husband Chetram Bharrat to death at their Haslington, East Coast Demerara home early Friday, says that she is not sure whether her lover plotted to kill her spouse.
On her hospital bed yesterday, the woman who was chopped to her left side face, right shoulder and twice to her right arm said that her lover, “Errol”, had previously tried to kill her family.

“I don’t know if he set up to kill (my husband) but a time me and (me husband) bin ah sit on the verandah and he come and start behaving bad and he threaten to kill my husband,” the woman recalled.
On Friday the 36-year-old woman had told police that she and her husband were attacked by two bandits who carried away $500,000.
However, relatives and neighbours are almost convinced that it was the work of the woman’s lover.
Chatram 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, Friday.
Police yesterday said that the woman’s lover remains a person of interest.
Ramdat, who is under police guard at the hospital, explained that early last year she left her husband and moved in with her lover. They lived together for four months because “he bin beat me and me move out and went by me sister for three weeks and then me husband call and say that he want me back,” the woman related.
She subsequently moved back in with her husband. Since then her lover would frequently try to make contact with her and harass her family.
The woman admitted that “Errol” threw a poisonous substance into the tank with water that her family consumed, but she did not go into further details.
A detective who is working along with other investigators on the case told Kaieteur News that while they made checks for the man, they are a bit cautious about issuing a wanted bulletin for his arrest.
The detective noted that the fact that the man has conveniently disappeared raises a lot of questions.
Gopaul Ramkumar, the couple’s eastern neighbor,  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.
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.
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 Bharrat’s brutal death was a shock, it was not unexpected.
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 a robbery sounded a bit farfetched.
He said that first of 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.

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