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Security guard beaten to death at worksite
Yet another murder has rocked an East Bank Demerara district. A 58-year-old security guard was beaten to death while on duty at his worksite early yesterday morning.
Fifty-eight year-old Ishri Holadar, of 540 Cinema Street, Diamond was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after he was tied up, beaten and gagged by men who invaded his worksite.
Dead 58-year-old Ishri Holadar
Holadar was employed by KRS Construction CO. and Equipment Rental, New Hope, East Bank Demerara.
The dead man’s wife, Gaitree Persaud, told this publication that she saw her husband alive late yesterday afternoon when they visited some relatives in Diamond New Scheme.
“He does live between me and he mother. He sister come in the country and we all went over and I left and come home and he tell me he going to work later,” Persaud said.
Persaud said she never knew that would have been the last time she would have spoken to her husband. The bereaved woman said early yesterday morning her daughter received a telephone call, informing her that her husband had died.
The woman said she was merely informed that her husband and another man were doing their regular security duty when four men invaded the premises. This publication was told that Holadar and the other man were tied up, gagged and beaten with metal rods.
“All them tell me is that the men when dem done beat me husband and tie them up, break into a container and carry away some stuff”.
Persaud added that she was told that her husband’s colleague managed to untie himself after the men left.
“He say when them men left he go fuh help me husband and when he tek off the thing wha dem tie up me husband mouth with, he make a last breath and like he dead,”.
Persaud only saw her husband’s remains while he was at the hospital, where she also saw her husband’s colleague. He was treated for a wound to his head.
“Something ain’t right to me. How come me husband get so bad beat up and all the other man get is some bruises and he get tablet from the hospital and send home?”
Persaud also spoke about her concern for other security guards who are employed with little or no proper systems in place.
“These men does wuk deh all hours and no lights in the place; just a kero lamp.
Up to press time yesterday, Holadar’s colleague was still giving statements to the police about the incident.
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