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Crushed woman to be buried today

May 14, 2010 News

The relatives of Bridgette Gangadin have now decided that the woman would not be cremated, according to Hindu rites, instead she would be buried. This newspaper was told that relatives had to abandon the plans for cremation since the Ministry of Health refused to grant them permission, even though permission was granted twice before. Kaieteur News was told the relatives went to the ministry and were informed that a senior police official had ordered that no permission should be granted.
Attorney at law Bernard De Santos SC yesterday told this newspaper that his client has abandoned the entire burial process.  De Santos was retained by Dwarka Gangadin, the deceased woman’s husband, who has been charged with her murder.
The lawyer opined that it was the police who again caused the family to be at loggerheads. He explained that both families had agreed that they would follow Justice Rishi Persaud’s order, when the police “unlawfully” got possession of the woman’s body. On Wednesday the police took Bridgette Gangadin’s body from Jerrick’s Funeral Home to the Lyken Funeral Parlour. The police had told the officials at the funeral parlour that they were to seize the body to facilitate another post mortem.
De Santos said that both sides on Monday had made an amicable decision and placed all emotions aside because “the woman’s body needed to rest in peace”.
The body is to be taken to her mother’s residence for viewing. The burial is expected to take place at the Good Hope cemetery.
Bridgette Gangadin’s body was discovered lying outside the Vigilance Police Station. Her husband who was arrested by police about an hour after the discovery had claimed that she fell from the cabin of his Canter truck and the rear wheel crushed her head. Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh had given the cause of her death as a crushed skull (as a result of her head being run over by the truck wheel).
But the woman’s relatives were convinced that she was murdered by her husband and sought the services of a foreign pathologist for a second opinion.
The pathologist, Professor Hubert Daisley, found that there was evidence that Bridgette Gangadin was strangled.
The confusion over the disposal of the woman’s body commenced last Saturday when her relatives were about to cremate her, Dwarka Gangadin turned up at the cremation site with a court order to halt the proceedings. This was to facilitate a third autopsy on the woman’s body.
However, Senior Counsel De Santos advised against such a move.
On Monday, relatives were preparing to cremate the body when officials from the Public Health Department halted proceedings.

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