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Porkknocker stabbed to death, reputed wife on the run

Apr 23, 2014 News

 

The murder of a 32-year-old man at Baramita, has once again exposed the lack of law and order in the small North West District community.
Junior Brandt, a porkknocker, was discovered dead yesterday morning with several stab wounds about his body.
Police in a press statement said that Brandt was allegedly involved in an argument with his reputed wife, during which he was fatally stabbed. Up to last night, the woman had not been arrested.
This latest incident has once more highlighted that the lack of respect for life and property is spiraling out of control and police in the district seem incapable of dealing with or are turning a blind eye to the situation.
And while the victim of the latest murder is a man at the hands of a woman, some concerned residents are appealing for something to be done to arrest what they described as wanton disregard for the law. They are critical of the police ranks there who they say are showing no regard for what is taking place.
In fact, one resident said that the police at the Baramita outpost, refused to accompany persons to the scene of the murder and it was the Village Captain who undertook the task to bring Brandt’s body out from the backdam where the incident took place.
Kaieteur News was told that early yesterday morning, a villager went to the Captain and reported that a man was lying dead in a pool of blood in the backdam.
According to a source in the district, the Captain and the individual went to the police, but their report of the murder was met with scant disregard by the police rank on duty, who reportedly had a dismissive attitude.
When contacted, the Captain, who claimed to be a relative of the dead man, said that he had requested to borrow the police’s All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) to go to the scene of the crime, but the police rank refused.
Later the Captain and the villager left on another ATV and within an hour they returned with Brandt’s body.
“The police didn’t go in and investigate and nobody get arrest, but the police lock up the man who report the murder,” the source said.
Villagers are desperately hoping that things will turn around quickly in their community so that future generations will be spared. They spoke of wanton alcohol consumption, even by under-aged children, and in most cases these binges end up in bloodshed.
“If a man stab a man in here, fifteen minutes later he get loose and the next morning is pure blood you seeing on the road. People raping the little girls and nobody being charged,” the source said. They painted a gloomy picture of their community.
“Lil children seven and nine years old drunk, drunk. Mother drinking rum and their children are with them crying,” one villager told this newspaper.
They were not very complimentary of the police either.
“The police doing DJ work at Nano shop. I don’t know what is going on in this community,” another resident lamented.
According to the resident, “every day after six o’clock, the police station close and is everybody drunk.”

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