Man kills brother following drinking spree

Apr 23, 2014 News

– Hides body under carpet

Murdered: Jairam Teekaram

By Romila Boodram
Constant fighting between two brothers ended in the brutal slaying of one early Monday morning at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
The bloodied body of 40-year-old Jairam Teekaram with the head almost severed was discovered around 08:00hrs yesterday by a neighbour, covered with a piece of carpet and hidden away in the bushes at the side of the shack he once called home.
The dead man’s brother, called ‘Janko’ has since been arrested and according to police sources, all he is saying is, “I didn’t kill him.”
However, investigators are saying, “This was not difficult to solve. Everything was right there.”
Reports are that the two brothers had an argument during which the older brother ‘Janko’, chopped his sibling to death, and then hid his body.
According to residents of the area, the two brothers were no strangers to the community as they were always at each other’s throats once they consumed alcohol, which was often.
Yesterday, the dead man’s son, Chris Teekaram told this publication that he was at home getting ready for work when he received a call from one of his father’s neighbours, informing him about the murder.
“I come across here and then they (neighbours) tell me that my father was murdered by his brother. When I went into the house, the entire place was covered in blood and my father body was in the bushes and he (Janko) covered it with a piece of carpet,” the dead man’s son related.
He said from all indications, his uncle murdered his father and then dragged him out of the house and hid his body.
The man said that his father’s body bore several chop wounds and it would have been impossible for him to survive that attack.
“I can’t believe he murdered a man in there and then he slept there like nothing happened. He even cooked and eat in that place,” Chris Teekaram lamented.
He further recounted that his father, who did odd-jobs in the community, would often go to his home and complain about being attacked by his older brother.

Jairam’s bloodied body was removed from next to this shack.

“He (Janko) would beat him and chop him up too. One time he chopped him (Jairam) on his face,” the distraught son, who was separated from his father for the past 11 years, said.
The young Teekaram said that he would often talk to his father about the heavy drinking but his efforts were in vain.
A next door neighbour, whose husband made the gruesome discovery, said that around 01:00hr on Sunday, she heard a loud noise and thought it was thieves trying to attack her son, but it was actually “Janko”.
“I hear ‘Janko’ saying, ‘my name is Janko and meh does smoke cocaine and meh gon kill everybody’ and then he walked and then he start beating down the door and when the Amerindian man who does stay with them sometimes, opened the door, he (Janko) started beating him, and the man run away,” the neighbour said.
The woman added that ‘Janko’ started beating his brother.
“When I peep through the back window I see he (Janko) got he brother and beating him and asking if he want he (Janko) tek the cutlass and push it up he behind and he pull down the man pants and push the cutlass in he.”
The neighbour said that given the fact that “the fighting is a normal something” she went back to bed, and later that day, she and her family went to the creek.
“This morning (yesterday) my husband went at the back of our yard and he see something looking like a body covered with a piece of carpet, but he didn’t know it was Jairam,” the woman added.
Kaieteur News was told that the police were informed and upon checking, they found Jairam’s body. His brother was arrested at his employment site.