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Pirate attack…Boat captain’s wife claimed that she was threatened
While family members of the three missing fishermen are searching tirelessly for their bodies along the Mahaicony foreshore, the boat captain’s wife claimed that she was forced to file a police report after receiving a threat.
Dead: Andrew Gopie
Kaloutie Hack, of Lusignan said that ever since her husband, Feroze Hack, reported the pirate attack various persons have been calling her telephone, threatening to kill her family.
The woman said that she does domestic work for a living and because of the threats she has no other choice but to stay at home with her four children who are scared for their lives.
She said that although family members of the missing men believe that her husband had something to do with the pirate attack, she is convinced that he is innocent.
“My husband can’t kill a chicken and for that same reason we stop mind them. My husband is sickly. He has high blood pressure, high blood sugar and cholesterol and I don’t even want to imagine what is going on with him over there (in Suriname),” Mrs. Hack said.
Around 22:00 hrs on July 8, last, four pirates allegedly stormed the fishing boat, and according to the lone survivor, began “firing chops at everybody” before kicking them overboard.
Hack, who is being interrogated by Suriname police officers, claimed that he survived the attack by swimming for hours until he saw a small boat which then took him to the police station.
Four days after the attack was reported, the boat was discovered in Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
And, around 16:00 hrs on Thursday, one of the four bodies was found on the Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara foreshore.
The body was identified as 40-year-old Andrew Gopie of Lusignan, ECD.
Kaieteur News understands that the captain is now in even “bigger trouble” given the fact that the boat and a body were discovered here instead of Suriname.
“The captain story seems to be a little confusing. He said that they were ambushed in Suriname so how did the body and the boat turn up here,” a police source questioned.
He added that plans are currently being made to get the boat captain over here since he is now considered a person of interest.
Those still missing are Vinesh Drunarine of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara; Raymond Gomes, and Chandrapaul Jallim of Recht-Door-Zee, West Bank Demerara.
The three missing fishermen.
According to reports, Hack told Surinamese detectives that he and his crew were sailing when another vessel slammed into their boat and four men attacked them.
The boat captain had also claimed that after stripping their vessel, the pirates carried them over to their (pirate) boat, drove off a little and kicked them overboard.
He alleged that before he was kicked overboard he managed to untie his hands, so by the time he was in the water, his hands were free.
In a Suriname police station, Hack reportedly told co-owner of the vessel, Deochand Bharat, that when he was in the water he saw three of the four fishermen, most of whom had already untied their hands.
He said that he swam to them but they were separated when the pirates drove their vessel “right up to them.”
Kaieteur News understands that the captain told police officers and Bharat that after he was separated from his crew members, he swam to a mud-flat and fell asleep.
“He said that after he fall sleep some mosquito start bite he and wake he up and he start swim again until he see a boat and from there he contacted me,” Bharat said.
The vessel is registered in Suriname and is operated by Deochand Bharat and a Surinamese partner.
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