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Cops deny burglary suspect died from beating

Mar 22, 2013 News

 

 

–    PM reveals victim had head injury

Police and relatives of a 44-year-old burglary suspect are giving conflicting claims as to how he ended up dead from head injuries he sustained in a cell.
Ramesh Ramsarran, of Plantation Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara, was detained last week in connection with the theft of a gas stove and a cooking gas cylinder from a house on the West Coast of Demerara.
On Monday, he was found in an unconscious state in the Wales Police Station lockups and succumbed the following day in the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
A post mortem examination gave the cause of death as cirrhosis of the liver and blunt trauma to the head.
Police sources told Kaieteur News that other prisoners alleged that Ramsarran had suffered an epileptic seizure. According to a police official, the pathologist indicated that Ramsarran had apparently struck his head during the seizure.
The prisoner’s relatives confirmed that he was an epileptic, but refuted suggestions that he sustained his injuries during a seizure. A sister who viewed his body said that the top of her brother’s head was swollen. Her opinion is that Ramsarran would have struck his face or the back of his head if he had fallen during his fit.
The woman told Kaieteur News that her brother moved from Le Ressouvenir to Canal Number Two, West Bank of Demerara about two years ago, where another sister lives. However, she said that Ramsarran began drinking heavily and began to live like a vagrant, while doing odd-jobs in nearby communities.
According to the sister, Ramsarran was given refuge beneath a house in Canal Number Two. She said that her brother would guard the property when the couple who owned it travelled to the interior.
She explained that a few months ago, her brother alleged that he saw a man leaving the property with a gas cylinder. Then, last Saturday, the couple alleged that someone had stolen a gas stove and other valuables from their home while they were away.
Police subsequently arrested Ramsarran and four other men in connection with the burglary. A police official told Kaieteur News that Ramsarran admitted to stealing the gas cylinder and identified the individual to whom it was sold. However, he denied stealing the gas stove.
According to Ramsarran’s sister, all the men, except her brother, were released. The woman alleged that on Sunday, another sister went to the Wales Police Station and observed that her brother’s cell was soaked.  She said that Ramsarran also claimed that some police ranks had beaten him.
She alleged that one of the ranks ignored suggestions that her brother be hospitalised.
The sister said that she was told that Ramsarran would be charged on Monday. However, when she visited the Wales Police Station on Tuesday, she was told that her brother had been admitted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
She then visited the hospital, only to learn that her brother had died.

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