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Trini teen’s murder…Suspect threatens suicide rather than surrender
Ramesh Sookram, the 25-year–old Guyanese construction worker who is wanted for the murder
Dead: Nikita Ramischand
of 18-year-old Trinidadian Nikita Ramischand, has reportedly threatened to kill himself rather than surrender to police.
This is according to Newsday, a Trinidad newspaper, which quoted the slain teen’s father as saying that the suspect telephoned the girl’s mother, Shariza, at around 19:00 hrs on Sunday and spoke with her for about 20 minutes.
According to the report, Sookram strongly denied involvement in Nikita Ramischand’s killing but added that he prefers to kill himself rather than surrender.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect has made other calls to the victim’s mother.
Newsday also reported that the victim’s father, Trinidad-based attorney, Odai Ramischand, said that the fugitive was very emotional during the telephone conversation which was recorded by police.
“Where he is I know that he is suffering and not able to even get some water or food to eat. It won’t be long before he is apprehended and brought to justice,” Ramischand said.
Sookram, also called ‘Alan’, fled to Guyana shortly after he allegedly slit Nikita Ramischand’s throat and stabbed her several times at her Maracas, St Joseph home last Wednesday.
According to reports, CCTV (closed-circuit television) footage at Piarco International Airport showed the suspect in company with a cousin before he boarded a Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) flight to Guyana.
One of his hands was bandaged and police believe this was from an injury he sustained while scaling a ten-foot high fence topped with razor wire after committing the murder.
Newsday said that Sookram listed his mother’s Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara address as his destination when he left Trinidad. The newspaper added that his mother has told detectives here that her son never arrived at her home and she has not heard from or seen him.
“However, police in Guyana obtained telephone records which indicated the suspect spoke with his mother from an unlisted number telling her he only learnt of the incident in the newspapers. The last time he spoke to her was on Saturday night.”
The report out of Trinidad said that investigators there also confirmed yesterday that they have seized a knife they believe to be the murder weapon found in a discarded tyre in a river behind Nikita Ramischand’s home. Police believe the killer washed away the victim’s blood from his hands in the river.
The newspaper also said that two Homicide Investigations Bureau officers from Trinidad are in Guyana assisting with the investigation. It said that Trinidad’s Deputy Police commissioner Mervyn Richardson confirmed that the Homicide Investigations Bureau is working closely with police in Guyana to apprehend the suspect and have him returned to Trinidad for questioning.
But Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell (ag.) told Kaieteur News yesterday that he is unaware of the presence of any Trinidadian investigators here. He again expressed confidence that the fugitive will be captured.
“We have some leads we are working on; we will get him.”
On Sunday, Brumell confirmed that Immigration records show that Sookram entered Guyana. The acting Top Cop said that he has also spoken to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud about issuing a wanted bulletin for the suspect. He added that his counterparts in Trinidad will be informed as soon as the arrest is made.
Meanwhile, Nikita Ramischand was cremated yesterday at Belgroves Funeral Home following a funeral service.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who is the victim’s uncle, attended the funeral service. According to Newsday, Nandlall confirmed being kept abreast of developments about the manhunt in Guyana for the suspect.
The newspaper said that he praised the Trinidad police whom he said have not only been professional in their investigations, but also very supportive and sympathetic to his family.
Nikita Ramischand, a second-year ACCA student of the School of Business and Computer Sciences (SBCS), worked at Casa de Belize, a salon her mother Shariza operated next to the family home at LP 46 Maracas Royal Road, Maracas, St. Joseph.
She was walking to her mother’s salon located inside the compound of her father’s sprawling mansion when she was allegedly accosted by her killer who dragged her behind a guest house on the compound, slashed her throat and then stabbed her six times in the abdomen.
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