Slain businessman cremated

Dec 14, 2012 News

– cops still to test blood samples

Murdered Annandale businessman Kamal Ramsahoye was cremated yesterday, with police still to apprehend his killers or ascertain whether his death is the result of a robbery or other motive.
The 35-year-old man was cremated at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.
Ramsahoye, who lived alone at his Annandale Market Road property, which houses his business, was found dead in the bottom flat of

Kamal Ramsahoye

the building with multiple stab wounds at around 07:30 hrs last Sunday.
The flat was ransacked and it is believed that the killers fled with cash and other valuables.
However, Kaieteur News understands that police are still unsure whether robbery was the primary motive. The victim was stabbed seven times in the back and twice in the chest, and one source suggested that the brutality of the attack might indicate that the motive might have been revenge.
Detectives are working on the theory that Ramsahoye was attacked shortly after he opened up his property and went into his yard through the back door, since there was no sign of forced entry.
There is speculation that the victim knew his attackers.
After killing Ramsahoye, the killers apparently scaled a high fence enforced with razor wire and escaped, but in the process left a trail of blood. A police source said that while Crime Scene personnel took samples of the blood, those are still to be tested to ascertain whether it came from the killers.
The businessman’s body was found by his brother, Kumar Ramsahoye, who lives a few houses away.
The brother said that his sibling, who is separated from his wife, would usually “come over in the morning for breakfast.” He said that when Kamal did not come over on Sunday, he tried contacting him on his telephone but got no answer. The sibling said that he decided to visit his brother and found the back door to the bottom flat open and Kamal lying in a pool of blood in the house.
None of the neighbours recalled seeing anyone enter or leave the businessman’s premises.
The dead man’s wife, Narda Sookram, turned up about two hours after the discovery of her husband’s body. She told Kaieteur News that she and Ramsahoye married last April but they became estranged following several interventions by his relatives.