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Dec 04, 2010 News
By Rabindra Rooplall
Two teenage lovers were found hanging two feet apart from a pink sheet in an abandoned house at Lot 55 Sideline-dam Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara in the wee hours of Friday morning.
Dead is 18-year-old Avinash Persaud of Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo, and his girlfriend Kamattie Wilfred called “Mamo or Sonia”, 17, of 58 East Meten-Meer-Zorg, and of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara. The abandoned house belonged to Avinash Persaud’s grandparents.
Both bodies were transported to Ezekiel Funeral Home, at Crane West Demerara. An autopsy is expected to be performed next week.
Persaud, the second of five children, leaves to mourn his parents, two brothers and two sisters, while Wilfred has left her parents and two brothers.
News of the hanging sent shockwaves through the West Coast Demerara communities.
At the Persauds, relatives were grief stricken and were unable to comprehend what had really transpired.
According to the dead boy’s mother, Kamesa Ally, her son who was a conductor, worked with his father on their minibus transporting passengers from Parika to Georgetown.
She said that on Monday night her son-in-law was taken to the hospital, and she told “Avinash” to stay at home with his sisters until she returned.
The tearful mother explained that after returning home she noticed that her son was absent. She said that as she was busy with visiting the hospital she was unable to focus on locating her son.
She said that after her son went missing a report was made by her husband to the Parika Police Station on Wednesday.
The policemen were reluctant to treat the matter with any seriousness because it was a report pertaining to a male and a female running away together. “They (Police) say that girl gon left he. Them gone and have a nice time, and that is boyfriend and girlfriend story…If the police had helped me find my son this would not be the result.”
She explained that after being frustrated at the policemen’s apparent lack of care at Parika Police Station, she then visited the Leonora Police Station and saw action being taken by one of the officers who later confronted the relatives of the young lady about the issue of their disappearance.
But nothing was forthcoming since relatives claimed that they had no idea of the whereabouts of the couple.
“I tell them we gon work something out, and they could settle down, that I just want to see my son. “But I don’t want her for my son because all about where I go to find out about this girl the family telling me that dem na business with that girl, that she is a bad girl because is every boy know she.”
Ms Kamesa Ally disclosed that after she learnt of her son’s relationship with the “Sonia”, she then investigated the background of the young lady. She learnt that the girl worked at a Chinese restaurant in Parika and in many other bars on the West Coast Demerara.
The reports were that she was seen in the company of various other men.
“One time me see he with this girl and me put he to sit down and talk to he. Me say Avinash if you want marriage, it got nice, nice gal; if you want marriage tell me and he tell me he na like this gal. Me na know how this happen.”
Ally said that she received the depressing message of her son’s demise yesterday morning after police discovered their bodies some time after 6:00hrs.
She was then told that persons had seen the couple in Cornelia Ida where Kamattie was residing recently with her 14-year-old brother and mother who has a week-old baby.
“Me prefer than he take da gal, before he do this. He was the best son to me. Watch how he left a good future and gone. I went to all of the girl’s family and beg for information to get to see mey son, but they all claiming that they don’t know.
Now look what happen!” Ally lamented.
“Before he kill he self, he should have call me and tell me what he want and I would have helped him.”
Relatives of Kamattie Wilfred told Kaieteur News that they had no idea of the whereabouts of the young lady and when they had learnt of the couple running away from their respective homes they thought they had eloped.
Seusankar Ramesh, an uncle of Kamattie Wilfred, said that he received a phone call yesterday about the demise of his niece and her boyfriend while he was at the taxi service where he worked. “They liked each other and the parents of the boy try to pull away the boy from the girl.”
He said that the relationship was two years old and that both of them kill themselves because the boy parent didn’t want them to marry. Avinash’s mother said that they had been having the relationship for about four months.
Ramesh said that Avinash’s parents could have agreed to the marriage and things would have been different. “Whether she good she bad or what, this is life and we must have understanding.”
Bhagwan Bacchus, the father of the dead girl, said he last heard from his daughter a few weeks ago when it was his birthday. He said that when they spoke he thought everything was alright since she never complained of having any issues of marriage or any problem whatsoever.
“I never expect she to do this. The boy’s parent come and ask me about them, then I know what is going on. And I told them I had no idea of what happened or where they deh.”
The father said that his daughter’s mother made her wayward, and the end result is depressing.
According to Kamattie’s 14-year-old brother, his sister last stayed at home Sunday night and never returned. He said that he later saw her in another village by herself and left her alone since he thought she would have “come home”
Residents of sideline-dam disclosed that they had seen the couple entering the abandoned house in the early hours of Friday morning.
According to Police Public Relations, post mortem examinations will be conducted on the bodies shortly as the investigations continue.
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