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Body at Safari Inn…Hotel handyman died from fractured skull
Police are continuing to treat the death of hotel handyman Victor Ramsabad as a murder, after a postmortem conducted yesterday revealed that he had died from a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage.
The 37-year-old Ramsabad, known as ‘Tun Tun’, was found dead last Tuesday in the compound of the Safari Inn, located at Friendship, East Bank Demerara. He had what appeared to be a gaping wound to the back of the head and lacerations about the body. Ramsabad was last seen alive at the hotel at around 21:00 hrs two Sundays ago, and it is believed that he died the same day.
Police had detained the proprietor, Francis Correia, but released him on $30,000 station bail. Mr. Correia had told Kaieteur News that he was instructed to return to the station yesterday, since the investigation was incomplete.
Victor Ramsabad
There had been suggestions by the hotel owner’s wife that the handyman, who was a heavy drinker, had fallen to his death from a shed while indulging in his habit of climbing and peering into the rooms of couples visiting the hotel. But Ramsabad’s mother had said that she was told that her son had gotten into an altercation with someone after he had taken some bottles of beer from a freezer under the pretext of giving them to a customer on credit.
Yvonne Correia, the proprietor’s wife, had told Kaieteur News that Ramsabad had been doing odd-jobs at the hotel since he was about 15. He was paid $3,000 for a day’s work and was well treated, despite his drinking habit.
But she said that while they put up with the handyman’s pilfering, they were particularly upset by his habit of peeping into the bedrooms and even into bathrooms at showering guests. Mrs. Correia said that she had ordered the handyman to stay off the property at night, particularly when he was drunk, but he would sometimes sneak into the unfenced compound.
Mrs. Correia said that she was informed that at around 22:00 hrs on Sunday, August 18, a couple came to book a room at the hotel. A female tenant gave the customers a room key, and on looking outside, reportedly saw ‘Tun Tun’ in the yard.
“She say ‘‘Tun Tun’, Auntie Yvonne ain’t say that she don’t want you in the yard after hours?’”
According to Mrs. Correia, the tenant then went inside, so she was unable to say whether the handyman had left.
Ramsabad was found dead two days later.
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