Third suspect in brutal hacking of guard found

May 21, 2014 News

The police yesterday picked up a third suspect in the brutal hacking of a 40-year-old Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident. The suspect, a labourer, was arrested around 15:30 hrs at a construction site in Pigeon Island by ranks who were tipped off.

Karan Persaud

Ranks are on the hunt for a fourth suspect who brutally stabbed security guard Karan Persaud of Pigeon Island Squatting Area last Thursday. The men also sliced Persaud’s nose off and slit his throat.
Persaud underwent two emergency surgeries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and was discharged on Monday. He has to return to the hospital to do corrective surgery on his nose.
According to information received, Persaud was drinking at a bottom house at Lot 25 Pigeon Island when four men walked into the yard and approached him. They asked that he show them where the urinal was located.
“He (Persaud) show them and turn away and one of the men asked he (Persaud) why he couldn’t get up and take them to the urinal and they started arguing,” an eyewitness who requested anonymity said.
According to the eyewitness, the men first took a bottle and hit the man on his head after which they pulled out knives and started stabbing him to the abdomen. No one was able to intervene, despite Persaud’s desperate cries for help.
“After they stab him, two of them hold him down and one of them take the knife and slice his nose off and throw it on the ground,” the eyewitness related.
The man’s reputed wife Lilowtie Samaroo had said she was at home when her son informed her about the brutal attack on her husband.
“I run and go in the yard next door to wheh dem went chopping he and I keep shouting for help and I tell de four of dem (suspects) that I know all of dem, and one who name Prakash ask me if I see he do anything and I shouted yes and he pelt a brick at me but it miss,” the woman recalled.
She added that while she was shouting for help, the men were constantly stabbing her husband who had fainted and had blood gushing from his neck.
“He fall down and then they hold him up and brace him to the wall and they just continue stabbing he. I thought he was dead. When they (Persaud’s attackers) finished with him they run away and we run over in the yard,” the wife said.
She added that her husband was lying face down and when she turned him over, she noticed his nose was sliced off and he had multiple wounds about his body.

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