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Reputed husband refutes allegations of torched Linden house
Brent Lewis
Brent Lewis, the former reputed husband of the mother of his five children, who allegedly torched a neighbour’s home on Saturday night is claiming that it is a frivolous allegation to tarnish the woman’s character.
Brent Lewis, yesterday, told Kaieteur News that the structure that Linieka Roopnaraine and her mother, Tarawattie Beharry, are claiming the woman burnt down was never really a home, but a “shack”.
He described it as a few zinc sheets to enclose a sleeping area. He said that there was no floor and that no decent person would live there. He said that Roopnaraine would use the shack whenever she visited to work on her house and would leave after two or three days.
According to Lewis, the mother and daughter were the ones who continuously made threats against his former reputed wife.
The man said that the feud began when he and his reputed wife refused to sell a plot of land to Beharry.
The man said that on one occasion Beharry told him that she was prepared to plant drugs in his home if he wanted peace from the woman; he dared the mother to refute the allegation.
“De mother told me that she could put cocaine in de house and frame meh child mother, because my child mother does molest me”.
On Sunday, the police were searching for the mother of five whose disappearance coincided with the fire, at Swan Turn, Long Creek, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway.
Beharry and Roopnaraine had told this publication that they never thought that something so devastating would have happened, even though the woman was warned by the courts recently.
Roopnaraine alleged that last week Wednesday, the neighbour issued threats to torch their property.
Roopnaraine said that the neighbour’s continuous threats caused her to make a report at the Kuru Kuru Police Station.
The neighbour allegedly appeared in the Providence Magistrates Court on Friday to answer to charges of threatening language. She was reportedly released on bail.
Roopnaraine said she went to a relative’s home when she received the news about the fire. The police were summoned but by then the neighbour had already fled.
Roopnaraine said that persons in the area told them the woman sold a number of household items before going into hiding.
“She sell a number of things and got the money and then she disappeared”, Roopnaraine said.
The family estimates their losses at $2M, a figure that Lewis vehemently denies. He said that the shack could not hold much and that no one would leave anything of value there.
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