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Labourer torches home after finding man in his bed
– fire-tender crashes on its way to scene
A Westminster man is on the run and his estranged wife and five children
A distraught Surswatie Mootoo with two of her five children yesterday.
are homeless after he allegedly lit his home afire early yesterday.
The incident happened minutes after the man returned home and reportedly found another man lying in his bed in the West Bank Demerara home which also housed a shop.
Homeless are Surswattie Mootoo called ‘Radha’, 31, and her five children of 3921 Westminster Phase Two, West Bank Demerara. The children’s age range from five to 12 years.
It was only a week ago that the husband, whose name was given as Naresh Seepersaud called ‘Fineman’, was placed on a bond to keep the peace for a year after he appeared at the Wales Magistrate’s Court on domestic abuse related charges.
The couple then decided to split possessions with Seepersaud deciding to keep the upper flat of the building.
He was seen using a kerosene stove to douse the upper flat of the home and even threatened villagers who came to dissuade him from any further negative actions.
According to a distraught Mootoo, she had been having trouble with her husband for some time now.
“He come back after six (06:00hrs) this morning. He rap and then he go upstairs and he come out with the kero stove and tell the children not to go upstairs,” Mootoo told this newspaper.
Neighbours were alerted to the quarrel and a number of them came out.
They were reportedly forced to beat a retreat after Seepersaud threatened them with a piece of wood.
Mootoo is estimating her losses to be in the millions of dollars.
“Everything is gone. I am not sure what fuh do now.”
The man allegedly lit the home afire and left hurriedly with several bags of clothing.
Neighbours said that Seepersaud, who works as a labourer, was away from the home for several days.
He apparently became incensed after seeing another male in the home yesterday.
The fire was not without other incidents. Police detained one of the children after he was accused of stealing a cell phone.
And a fire tender rushing to the scene from the city suffered a puncture after attempting to avoid two overtaking cars. It reportedly sideswiped the rails of the Demerara Harbour Bridge which resulted in severe damage to one of the wheels of the tender.
According to Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle, another tender was dispatched from the Leonora Fire Station, West Coast Demerara.
Amidst complaints by residents of Westminster, Gentle disclosed that there are plans to
What remained of the Westminster home
build a station for the West Bank of Demerara.
There were also complaints by residents yesterday of the deplorable state of the roads leading to the community.
Westminster is one of the several new housing schemes adjoining La Parfaite Harmonie, one of the country’s largest housing areas established west of La Grange and north of the Canal # 1 road.
Yesterday’s blaze would come weeks after another in neighbouring La Parfaite Harmonie which left two children dead and several homeless. (by Leonard Gildarie)
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