Burglars kill estate labourer

Dec 16, 2013 News

– home ransacked, valuables missing

Police on the West Coast of Demerara were up to press time looking for the killers of estate labourer Jamaludeen Sattaur, who was found beaten to death in his home at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara.

Dead Jamaludeen Sattaur

Sattaur, 56, was found lying in a pool of blood by his reputed wife Genevieve Hartman, shortly after 07:30hrs yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that there was a gaping wound to Sattaur’s head. The couple’s apartment was ransacked and several items including money were missing.
Police believe that Sattaur’s killers gained entry through a window during a heavy downpour.
Sattaur’s reputed wife told Kaieteur News yesterday that she discovered the body shortly after 7:30hrs. According to Hartman, she last she saw her husband alive on Saturday evening around 18:30 hrs when she left for her job as a domestic.
Hartman works from 19:00hrs to 07:00hrs daily. The woman told Kaieteur News that her husband had shown her a quantity of money which he had received.
“I left him there…he was lying in his hammock, he wasn’t drinking or anything; I left him sober and everything.”
Hartman said nothing could have prepared her for what she found on her return.
“I walked into the yard and his brother was on the road telling me that he calling for him and he ain’t answering” the woman said. Hartman said upon opening the door, she saw that the apartment was ransacked.
“Soon as I walk in I see the house ransacked and I started calling for him, but nobody ain’t answer me” the woman told Kaieteur News. As she walked to the kitchen area, Hartman said she discovered her husband’s lifeless body. The woman said she immediately started calling for her neighbours.
She showed Kaieteur News a large blood-spattered brick, which she believes that the perpetrator (s) used to hit her husband.

The dead man’s wife Genevieve Hartman

Hartman told Kaieteur News that there was a gaping wound to her husband’s head. Neighbours said that they did not see or hear anything unusual in the house anytime Saturday night.
The woman told Kaieteur News that she had been living with her husband for five years now.
One of the theories so far that the police have worked on, is that thieves might have broken into the house without realizing that Sattaur was inside. Confronted by the homeowner, the robbers (s) probably bludgeoned him to death. Police have questioned several persons in the neighbourhood but have made no arrests.
Meanwhile, one of the dead man’s siblings, Maryann Sattaur, told Kaieteur News, that she strongly believes that thieves had robbed and killed her brother.
According to the woman only three months ago thieves had gone into her brother’s home and stole a quantity of gold belonging to their late mother.