Haslington New Scheme attack…Wounded woman fearful lover would try to finish her off

May 06, 2014 News

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Lomattie Ramdat, the survivor of last Thursday’s attack at Haslington New Scheme, East Coast Demerara is now convinced that her lover plotted the whole thing and is calling on the police to apprehend him quickly, since she fears for her safety and that of her children.
Speaking to Kaieteur News from her hospital bed, Ramdat who sustained chops to her left side face, right shoulder and twice to her right arm said “it got to be he send somebody fuh do dis…all body ah talk how he swear he go kill me and me husband…because if you nah do something, wha you go mistic for?” Ramdat said.

Ramdat, who is still under police guard in hospital, lost her husband Chetram Bharrat, a 36-year old fisherman when two cutlass-wielding men invaded their home.
After brutally hacking the couple and ransacking the house, the men reportedly made off with $300,000.
Many had blamed Ramdat and her lover for the attack but the woman maintained yesterday that they were victims of a robbery which she is certain that her lover “Errol” had set up.
She is basing her belief on the fact that her lover had on several occasions threatened to kill her and her husband as well as their two children.
In fact the two children ages 18 and 17 years old had moved out of their parents’ home out of fear for their safety, following the threats.
Ramdat informed that she and “Errol” had parted company a few months ago after he had inflicted a beating on her.
At the time she had moved in with him while her husband was in Suriname earning a living.
According to Ramdat, after the beating her husband advised her to move to a safe place until he returned to Guyana in a few months.
Ramdat’s husband returned to Guyana late last month with a substantial amount of money and despite her affair, he invited her back home to their house at Haslington New Scheme.
Recounting the events prior to last Friday morning’s attack, Ramdat said that she and her husband had secured their house and retired to bed just after 19:00 hours on Thursday after imbibing a “couple of beers”.
“The only thing I can recall ah when de chop wake up me and me husband,” she said.
The men had targeted her husband first and from all indications the first chop to his head immediately disabled him.
Ramdat said that she tried to prevent the men from further chopping her husband, taking two wounds on her right hand in the process.
“His blood start spray all over me face, all in me mouth and so. When me get up fuh come off de bed, de man ask me ‘whe de US, whe de money deh?’ me say me nah know whe me husband lef am. By time me can talk so, me get one chop hey (indicated her face) and me get blackout and me fall right in front de room door, after dat me nah know nothing,” Ramdat recalled.
When she regained consciousness, the attackers had already left and she felt the blood running down her face, while her almost severed hand was hanging at her side.
Then she turned towards her husband who was still lying on the bed.
“Me see he and say ‘Ow me God’, me nah know if he de dead. Me tek a towel and throw it round me head and crawl out easy and go by me neighbor and tell he wha happen,” Ramdat told this newspaper.
She has since given a statement to that effect to the police, who are still hunting her lover.
Neighbours and relatives were initially questioning why Ramdat did not raise an alarm during the attack, since she is usually vociferous whenever she and “Errol” were engaged in their domestic squabbles.
“How me go scream when me get blackout? Because is pure blood in me face, all over yuh skin, all in yuh head yuh get chop,” she responded.
Another question on the minds of relatives and neighbours is how the killers managed to gain entry into Ramdat’s house without arousing their dogs who usually bark incessantly at any sign of strangers in the night.
“Me nah know how de bandit come in too, because from de time me catch meself, me hustle fuh come out fuh go call me neighbour,” she said.
Gopaul Ramkumar, the couple’s eastern neighbour, said that he did not hear any screams when the attack was taking place but was only awakened by Ramdat’s knocking and calling his name.
He said that since the couple was known to have disagreements whenever they imbibed liquor, he thought that they were having another quarrel, so at first he was not too keen to get out of his bed.
“She call and seh, ‘come boy, open de door.’ When me open de door, me see she cover in blood and me nah know wha fuh do. Me put she fuh sit down and me go and me call dem other neighbour,” Ramkumar told this newspaper.
Ramdat’s husband was described as a quiet person who had forgiven her on several occasions for her infidelity and took her back to live with him, despite being advised to leave her, even by her own relatives.
So why did she continue her relationship with “Errol”?
She said that she also suffered abuse at the hands of her husband.
“Because he used to beat me, he nearly cut out me neck all…nobody nah kno wha ah happen in yuh house but dem like fly dem mouth.”
She said that she is fearful that as long as “Errol” remains on the loose her life is in danger.
“Me nah sleep whole night, me frighten. Ah best me bin go too behind me husband,” Ramdat cried.

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