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Police halt funeral and find that victim was murdered

Feb 26, 2009 News

Police on the West Coast Demerara on Tuesday halted a funeral after receiving information that the deceased may have been murdered.

Reports are that 54-year-old Bissoondial Dhanpaul, of 224 De Willem, West Coast Demerara, died on Friday at his home.

According to the dead man’s son, Nishaul Dhanpaul, on Friday morning he left the home for church around 5:30 hours. He said that some time around 8:30 hours he received a call from his mother stating that his father was dead.

“After church I went by my father-in-law and while I was there me mother call and tell me that me father dead so I run home and when I reach home I see he lying down in he bed dead,” the man said.

He said his father’s body bore no visible marks of violence and he immediately contacted the neighborhood medex who visited their home.

“After de medex come he pronounce me father dead and we carry he to the Leonora Cottage Hospital,” the dead man’s son recalled.

Since then, information has come that the family did manage to secure a death certificate from a doctor at the Leonora Cottage Hospital which stated that Dhanpaul died from acute Mycocardial infarction (heart attack) as a result of hypertension.

This newspaper was told that the same doctor who issued the death certificate to the family was the man’s doctor at the hypertension clinic.

Now in a twist of events as the family was preparing to have Dhanpaul cremated on Tuesday, acting on information received from neighbours, the police halted the funeral arrangements.

They had received information that on the morning of the man’s death there was what appeared, to neighbours, to be a fight in the house. As such the police ordered that a post mortem be carried out on the man’s remains.

The post mortem which was conducted yesterday by Dr Nehaul Singh revealed that Dhanpaul died as a result of a fractured skull due to a blunt trauma to the head. In wake of this revelation the son was questioned and he revealed that from time to time his parents would fight since his father was a heavy drinker.

The police have since arrested the son and the dead man’s wife.

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