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Bath murder…Police release suspects on bail

Jul 06, 2013 News

 

Police have released the three suspects that were held for the gruesome murder of 34-year-old Jaipaul ‘Jai’ Sampuran of Waterloo New Housing Scheme, Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, on station bail. Two of those detained were last seen drinking with the dead man while another was arrested where Sampuran’s dead body was discovered.
A post mortem performed on the body on Wednesday at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital by Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan concluded that Sampuran died of a fractured skull and cerebral haemorrhage.
But new details about the murder are coming to light. Kaieteur News spoke with Sampuran’s brother. Charranjit ‘Ryan’ Sampuran stated that the family believes that robbery was the motive behind their relative’s murder.
He stated that Sampuran left his home shortly after returning from work on Friday afternoon last on his bicycle with his earnings of over $100,000 in his possession. He was reportedly having a few drinks with two individuals at a shop at Number 11 Village, when an argument ensued.
“One of he friends, Rakesh, came and called he around 10:30 am [Friday] to go to the wedding house and he came and they went. Like an hour later, the friend came home back and called for Jai’s wife…She asked what had happened and asked for her husband.”
He added that the friend reported to the dead man’s wife that he left him at the shop and asked if he had come home. “And he went away and she didn’t hear back anything until the next morning.” Sampuran did not come home that night and his wife became worried. She then visited the friend’s house the following morning and enquired again about her husband’s whereabouts. He said that the friend stated that he did not know.
She then filed a missing person’s report at the Fort Wellington Station. It was that same morning around 04:25 hrs when Sampuran’s bloody body was discovered under a house in Number 11 Village, some distance away from the shop where he was last seen drinking with the friends.
Charranjit went on to state that the body was then taken to the morgue at Number 4 Village.
The owner of the house was also questioned at the station. “He said that around 3 am he heard a couple men beating somebody at his downstairs and he thought it was the police were beating thieves. When he peeped he saw a man lying downstairs and he called the neighbours and the police and nobody assisted to take the man to the hospital because it was said that he was still bleeding.”
Charranjit believes that the friends attempted to rob his brother and he (his brother) resisted and they ran him down the road and beat him to death. “All of them were drinking at the shop,” he stated. Nobody in the village saw anything, he stated.
They also criticized how the police are handling the case. “They ain’t come and tell we nothing”, stated Babita Ramoo, a cousin of the murdered man. She said that the police gave the family all assurances that the three suspects would have passed through court on Thursday but to her surprise she discovered that the men were released on station bail.
“All the police told me that the file gone to DPP….because up to yesterday at the post mortem; they said they got enough evidence to send those men down.”
“It appears to be a robbery because he had a large amount of cash like over $100,000—he draw pay at his workplace, so with the same pants he left the home…apparently it’s a robbery and he fought back and they double bank him.” Only $500 was discovered in the man’s pocket.
The dead man’s brother believes that the murderers combined their efforts, since his brother was a big- built individual. He believes that they beat his brother to death with the piece of wood recovered from the murder scene.
Additionally, the murdered man’s bicycle was also never recovered. The man’s relatives are concerned about the welfare of the five children as well as the man’s pregnant wife. He was the sole breadwinner of the home.
Sampuran leaves to mourn his wife, Renita and children Rajpaul, 4; Shaun Paul, 1; Tiffany, 3; Britney, 8; and Sherry, 15. There is also Jenny, 12 from another union.
Sampuran will be buried today at the Bush Lot Cemetery.

 

 

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