Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Another murder accused discharged in Magistrate’s court
Following no case submissions by Attorney at Law Mursaliene Bacchus, murder accused Sevak Rampersaud
Deceased Verone Patoir
on Monday, had his case discharged by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court.
Rampersaud, called Suresh Persaud, 37, a taxi driver of 54 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was charged in September 2011 with the murder of his paramour, Verone Patoir, on the 20th May 2011.
Patoir, 40, a mother of three of Lot 42 Mudflat, Stanleytown, New Amsterdam was allegedly involved in an abusive relationship and was allegedly brutally murdered by her paramour at her residence.
Attorney at Law Bacchus, in his submission, stated that the circumstantial evidence put forward by the prosecution was not enough. He stated that the evidence did not meet the threshold that is required in law. The attorney also quoted six legal authorities to support his submissions.
He stated that although there were some statements that the car of the accused was parked in the area, no one gave evidence that he entered or left the house. He further stated that there was no evidence of the time of death.
Over a dozen persons testified on behalf of the prosecution including the daughters of the accused.
It was understood that either a heavy or sharp object was used to bludgeon the woman’s head and slit her throat. Investigators had reportedly recovered some implements including a bloodied knife from the scene of the crime.
A Post Mortem by Dr Vivekananda Brijmohan at the New Amsterdam hospital gave the cause of death as shock and hemorrhage due to multiple Injuries and a fractured skull.
Rampersaud was arrested and locked up for a number of days soon after the crime. A motion of Habeas Corpus was filed by Mr. Bacchus in the High Court, and the man was released soon after on $200,000 station bail.
A file was subsequently prepared and sent to the office of the DPP which advised that the man be charged with the capital offence. He was charged almost four months after.
The woman, who was originally from an Amerindian settlement in Region Ten. One of Patoir’s daughters had returned home and discovered the bloodied body of her mother lying lifeless in the hallway of their home at 42 Mudflat, Stanleytown , New Amsterdam, Berbice.
She had told the media then that upon leaving home on the day in question for school she had seen the accused in his hire car with some other persons inside parked a short distance away.
She had returned home around 14:55hrs, to find the back door ajar and on entering the house she saw her mother’s bloodied body. Her face was battered, the hair from her head was uprooted, revealing the scalp, and the throat was slit.
A bloodied rolling pin was also removed from the scene.
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