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DPP orders inquest into suspected burglar’s death

Jul 06, 2012 News

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered an inquest into the death last Sunday of alleged burglar Ryan Ramkarran in a Brazilian-owned building in Second Avenue, Bartica.
The 23-year old Ramkarran, called ‘Budhram’, of Fourth Avenue, Bartica, was slain during a confrontation with Cary Bhojedat, allegedly while attempting to burglarise the apartment of a Brazilian woman.
Bhojedat was hospitalised with stab wounds. He was questioned by police after being discharged but has since been released. A post mortem revealed that Ramkarran died from manual strangulation compounded by blunt trauma to the head.
Ramkarran’s mother, Ophelia Persaud, said that she had received conflicting information about how her son died. Inquests are usually held to ascertain the circumstances surrounding sudden, unexplained and violent deaths.
According to one report, Bhojedat was in the apartment when he heard unusual sounds, and upon checking, encountered Ramkarran in the building. At the time, the intruder was allegedly attempting to burglarise the apartment, which is owned by a Brazilian woman and located above a restaurant and beer garden.
A confrontation ensued during which Bhojedat receiving several stab wounds while Ramkarran was strangled.
The police said that a toque mask with two eye-holes and two cell phones that are suspected to have been stolen, were found on the body of Ramkarran,
But Ramkarran’s mother, Ophelia Persaud, suggested that his death was linked to a relationship he had with a Brazilian woman.
Persaud related that her son went to a party in Bartica on Sunday night after which he went to the Brazilian club with the woman.
She said that another man, who is a friend of the woman, saw her son with the Brazilian and attacked him.
The woman said that her son retaliated by stabbing the man but was eventually overpowered and killed.
Ms. Persaud alleged that the money that her son had on him was missing.
According to an eyewitness’s account, several patrons were at the club imbibing and listening to music when at around 10:30pm some of the patrons heard unusual sounds emanating from the apartment overhead, where the proprietor of the business, 33-year-old Nubia Maria Labre Cardoso resides.
The woman contacted Bhojedat, an employee of the Guyana Forestry Commission, and asked him to check the upper flat of the location to see what was happening. When Bhojedat ventured upstairs he detected that the sounds were indeed coming from the main bedroom of the upper flat.
He then pushed open the bedroom door and saw Ramkarran rummaging through a wardrobe, while the room was in disarray.
According to the source, Ramkarran upon seeing Bhojedat, attacked him with a nine-inch piece of sharpened wire, stabbing Bhojedat about his body. Although wounded in the back, ribs, left arm, face and left side chest, Bhojedat managed to grab Ramkarran by the neck.
The scuffle between the two reportedly lasted several minutes, after which Ramkarran’s body was left lifeless on the bed.
The Bartica Police were then summoned to the scene where an undisclosed sum of cash was found in Ramkarran’s pants pockets along with the Brazilian woman’s cellular phone.
Some residents suggested that Ramkarran was involved in a number of criminal activities.

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