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Dad of dead Trini teen says Guyana police failing to arrest killer
Nikita Ramischand
A prominent Trinidad lawyer whose daughter was brutally killed in April 2012 has blazed Guyana police for their handling of the case.
The alleged killer, 27-year-old Ramesh Sookram, called ‘Alan’, fled to Guyana the day after Nikita Ramischand’s mutilated body was found at Maracas, Trinidad.
In a letter to the Trinidad media condemning Sunday’s assassination of well known attorney, Dana Seetahal, in that twin-island Republic, Odai Ramischand said he tracked the alleged killer to where he was staying in Guyana but reports to police were not heeded.
“I went to view him from a distance and where he was living,” Ramischand said in a Trinidad Express story yesterday.
“The guy who went with me was nearly chopped and killed by this criminal. We reported this to the police in Guyana. The police response was ‘why you didn’t shoot him’. Imagine the police in Guyana and in Trinidad know this criminal killed my daughter but they will not arrest him, saying they want to get the ‘accused number one’ first, or, are awaiting to find ‘accused number one’ first before arresting ‘accused number two’.”
The lawyer is now threatening to hold a press conference.
Detectives in Guyana had reportedly questioned Sookram’s mother at the woman’s Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara home, but learned nothing of the fugitive’s whereabouts. INTERPOL had also been notified.
Reports had said that the teen was attacked near her mother’s salon in Maracas. Her throat was slit and she was stabbed several times in the abdomen.
Investigators believe the suspect was obsessed with Nikita, who rejected his marriage proposal a few weeks ago.
According to the Trinidad media, Nikita, a second-year ACCA student of the School of Business and Computer Sciences (SBCS), worked at Casa de Belize, a salon her mother Shariza operated next to the family home at LP 46 Maracas Royal Road, Maracas, St Joseph.
She was supposed to attend to a client at the salon about 7 pm. Police believe that while walking to the salon, Nikita was ambushed by the suspect who dragged her behind the premises where he slit her throat and stabbed her in her abdomen. They believe that the killer used a kitchen knife.
The Newsday said that the victim’s mother told police that she did not hear any screams or any strange noises, but when Nikita failed to arrive at the salon she became suspicious and began calling her cell phone.
When the calls went unanswered, Shariza, her husband Odai, their eldest son Sid, another brother, and sisters began searching for Nikita.
They found her bloodied body behind the salon about 20:00 hours.
Police believe the killer scaled a ten-foot razor-edged wire fence, located on the northern side of the Ramischand family home, where he hid and waited for Nikita. Bloodstains were reportedly found on the fence.
Odai, who was born in Guyana, has been practising law in Trinidad for decades. Her daughter was the niece of Attorney General, Anil Nandlall.
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