Latest update February 6th, 2025 7:27 AM
34 murders in three months
Prampattie-Ransundar
Sonobia James
– most victims slain during disputes
Thirty-four people, including eight women, have been murdered within the past three months, with most of the victims being slain in disputes.
Statistics compiled by Kaieteur News indicate that 23 of the victims were killed during disputes with associates or family members. Nine of those slain were victims of robberies. Of this number, six were shot, one stabbed, and two strangled. There was one suspected execution-style killing.
Of the murdered women, six appeared to be victims of “crimes of passion”, while two were apparently slain by robbers who broke into their homes. Three of these cases remain unsolved.
Saleema Mohan, a 21-year-old teacher, was stabbed to death by her common-law husband on January 3.
He hanged himself before police could arrest him. Nursery school teacher Shaunell Warwick, suffered a brutal cutlass beating, allegedly at the hands of her reputed husband, and died on January 31. Natalie Loncke, 41, also a nursery school teacher, was stabbed to death by her partner during a quarrel at her Norton Street, Wortmanville home.
Carlos Persaud
Conrad Semple
Ramdarrie Rajpattie, 57, of Laluni, on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, was beaten to death by her reputed husband. Twenty-year-old Farida Ramdeen, called ‘Susie’, was allegedly slain by her lover and dumped in a canal on the Houston Estate; Sonobia James, was stabbed to death outside the Red Dragon nightspot during a dispute with another woman; and Special Constable Neibert Issacs-Bacon, was beaten to death and dumped in a canal in ‘D’ Field, Sophia.
The two women who died at the hands of robbers are 68-year-old Prampattie Ramsundar called ‘Auntie Daro’, who was slain in her home at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, and 74-year-old Khirul Najidam, called Babloo Saddick, whose bound and gagged body was found in a store room located in the lower flat of her 1215 Gaulding Place home, which was ransacked.
Eight of the 34 murder victims died from gunshot wounds. Of this number, six were slain by robbers. A seventh, who was found in a shallow grave, is suspected to have been killed during a dispute. The eighth gunshot victim, businessman Carlos Persaud, called “Jason”, is suspected to have been the victim of an execution-style killing.
His body was found in Le Repentir Cemetery with four gunshot wounds, shortly after he was reported missing by worried family members.
Statistics also indicate a rise in the murder rate in ‘E’ and ‘F ‘Division. Eight murders have occurred there for the year. One of the victims (Linden businessman Albert Joseph, called ‘Bolo’) was killed during a robbery.
Six were slain during disputes, and the motive in the slaying of one victim remains unclear.
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