Teen suspected in Berbice double murder still hospitalised

Oct 05, 2012 News

A post mortem (PM) done Wednesday on the two butchered Berbice women revealed that they died of shock and hemorrhage due to multiple injuries.
The remains of Florry Papiah, 33, of Lot 11 Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant, and Jennifer Pooran, 19, of Block 14 Tain, Port Mourant, Corentyne were discovered hidden on Sunday in a backdam area.

Florry Papiah and Jennifer Pooran died from shock and hemorrhage, a post mortem report said yesterday.

The two women disappeared on Saturday, September 29, after leaving home in company of Deodat ‘Simon’ Persaud, 19, to cut coconut branches at Adventure, Black Bush Polder, to make brooms which they sell for a living.
Persaud, who is the main suspect, reportedly injested a poisonous substance and is a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital under police guard. He was last seen in the company of the two women.
Persaud’s condition is listed as stable. Both women had reportedly lived in neighbouring Suriname but returned to reside in Guyana about two years ago. Pooran is said to be the mother of a two-year-old son who lives with his father.
Papiah had two teenaged daughters, and Persaud reportedly lived with the two women.
Kaieteur News understands that the bodies were found under a heap of coconut branches. A cutlass, some clothes and a bag were reportedly found at the scene.
While the motive is unclear, there are reports that the killer was under the influence of drugs when the attack occurred.
Kaieteur News understands that the nephew told investigators that while at Adventure some men held them at gunpoint and told him to drink poison and run. He reportedly also said that the men then abducted the two women.
A daughter had stated that her uncles and other relatives made a missing report at the Whim Police Station at around 16:30 hrs. They then searched late into the evening for the missing women but failed to locate them.
Accompanied by police, they returned Sunday to the area and eventually located the women’s mutilated corpses under a pile of coconut branches.