Triangular love affair leaves wife dead, husband attempts suicide by rope

Jun 04, 2013 News

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By Leon Suseran
A triangular love affair came to a deadly end just after 21:00 hrs on Sunday after a 28-year- old woman was allegedly strangled by her husband. The lifeless body of Geeta ‘Diane’ Bhishundial was discovered by her sister, Vashti, on a bed in the living room at Geeta’s home at Lot 57 High Reef, Albion, Corentyne. Not too far away, too, hanging in the same room and in an unconscious state, was the woman’s husband, Prabhudyal ‘Ramesh’ Tarachand, 34, a carpenter attached to the Albion Estate. The couple was married for the past seven years. A post- mortem performed yesterday at New Amsterdam Hospital concluded that the woman died of strangulation.
Bhishundial’s parents in Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice received a call that the couple were “fighting”. Vashti rushed to the scene only to find the Albion house locked up. After several frantic calls for Ramesh and Diane, she gained entry by breaking down the door to the house only to discover what she termed as shocking.

“My sister was lying on the bed”, she stated. “Ramesh kept saying he would hang himself and it is the kind of relationship where it reached to a point that was unbearable to her…but I never knew it would have reached this stage”.
Ramesh, she stated, was hanging with a cord tied to his neck. The one- year-old son of the couple, Jayden, was upstairs asleep. The other two children, Nichail, 7 and Brianna, 3, were staying at the time with an uncle not too far from the house. They called the police immediately and rushed both individuals to the Port Mourant Hospital. Diane was pronounced dead-on-arrival. Ramesh was hospitalized “for drinking thinner.” He was later taken to the Albion Police Station for questioning, and remains in custody up to press time.
“He killed her. No matter what they say justice can’t be done. Diane can’t come back.”
The woman’s mother, Khemranie Bhishundial, stated that she received a telephone call on Sunday morning when her daughter complained that “Ramesh choking me.”
“She cried and I called him and asked him why he did it and that I would take him to the Probation Officer.” She also claimed that when her husband, Clifford, visited the couple’s home Sunday afternoon to try to talk to Ramesh, “he chopped up the phone…he started to share out his tools and said that he will die tonight and he will hang himself tonight…I didn’t know he will kill my child like this.”
Vashti also claimed that her sister was going through a period of psychological and mental abuse by Ramesh. “He was always a jealous husband—I don’t know if they made rough jokes…it was not an abusive relationship to the point where he hit her. He would always say ‘ I will hang myself’, so she would feel limited because she cannot do better—she doesn’t have so much education like us so she can get a job…so she stuck it out with him and tried to make the marriage last.”
“He killed my sister and for whatever reason he killed her, he will have to live with that.”
She noted that the family knew about the little quarrels the couple would have but never thought that the emotional abuse would reach the stage it did. “He comes from a family that hang themselves—his dad, his uncle and somebody else…”
Ramesh’s brother told another story. He claimed that Luke turned up at the couple’s home on Sunday evening and tried to start an argument.
He stated that he, too, received a call on Sunday evening informing him that his brother was arrested and taken to Albion Police Station. When he arrived, “Ramesh and the sweet man—the police had them there having a confrontation…”
This affair has been going on for quite a while and Ramesh got knowledge or something but he loves his family—he said no matter how much it got worse, he will stay in the marriage.” He also stated that on April 26, there was a major confrontation between Luke, Diane and Ramesh at their residence, whereby the police were called in.
Luke, he stated, was warned to stay away from Diane. “Police arrested both of them and charged them the following day and they came to a compromise, mended matters and he [Ramesh] came home back with this wife.”
Tarachand, who stated that his brother, from his hospital bed, related to him what transpired on that fateful night. “The affair continued secretly…until like up to last night that this boy can’t take it no more—he came here and tell Ramesh that ‘let this girl choose between you or me’”.
Tarachand said that he asked Luke to leave and then he locked the door and went in the house with his wife. He also claimed that the couple had an argument after which he drank some ‘thinner’ and then passed out. After waking up a few minutes later, “when he got up he ain’t see his wife…so he thought she gone with Luke.”
He stated that his brother told him that he then attempted to hang himself “with a passion…cutting the cast- net cord, tied it to the rocker and jumped on the window sill and he didn’t know anything afterwards—when he wake up he was at the hospital…”
“He [Ramesh] felt bullied that Luke was coming to be with Diane in  his presence—full out—so that was what he couldn’t take.” “Both of them [Ramesh and Luke] have to be treated as a suspect—the three of them were alone and only they knew what happened.”
“[Diane’s family] are trying to cover up her fault”, he stated. “I don’t believe he did it…because he can’t beat this girl—the girl beats him—she has some size to overpower him—I don’t think he can able to physically manhandle her.
Up to press time, both Luke and Ramesh remained in police custody at the Albion and Whim Police Stations respectively. Kaieteur News was also informed that it was ordered that Ramesh is to undergo a psychological evaluation by a Psychiatrist at the National Psychiatric Hospital (NPH).

 

 

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