Four months later…Haslington New Scheme hacker captured

Sep 07, 2014 News

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– claims he was overwhelmed by jealousy 

Four months after he hacked fisherman, Chatram Bharrat, to death in an attempt to possess the man’s wife, the rope finally ran out for Errol Khan, when he was captured by police on Friday evening.

Khan, called Veenood Maraj, of Lot 72 Blossom Scheme, East Coast Demerara, for whom a wanted bulletin was issued, was apprehended when police swooped down on the Stabroek Market where Khan claimed he had been selling farm produce for a while.
Khan, who disappeared immediately after brutally slaying Bharrat and severely wounding his wife, Lomattie Ramdat at their Haslington New Scheme, East Coast Demerara home, was reportedly spotted a few times in his home village of Enmore but he managed to disappear before the police could respond to reports of his sighting.
He has reportedly confessed to the crime.
He claimed that he committed it in a fit of jealousy, since he was in love with Bharrat’s wife, Lomattie.
The incident occurred in the wee hours of the morning on Friday May 2, last, while the couple was asleep.
Initially investigators were working on the theory that the husband and wife were victims of a robbery, after the woman, who had to be treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for severe wounds, claimed that bandits had entered their house.
But two days later, Lomattie Ramdat, who was cheating on her husband with Khan, changed her story under immense pressure from her children. She disclosed that her lover was responsible.
She however stopped short of telling investigators that it was Khan who personally committed the act, in an effort to shield him from the hands of the law.
“It got to be he send somebody fuh do dis…All body ah talk how he swear he go kill me and me husband,” Ramdat had told this newspaper in early May while she was being treated at the GPHC.
On Friday, the captured Errol Khan boldly admitted to killing his lover’s husband.  He even boasted that he was glad that he did it, since he wanted the woman for himself.
Khan and the woman would get together and co-mingle whenever her husband was away at sea, sometimes for months at a time.
Bharrat returned home earlier this year with a huge sum of cash and although he was aware of the relationship, he splurged on his wife, who returned to her matrimonial home, angering Khan in the process.
Khan became jealous and was determined to get the woman back.
His anger reached fever pitch on the night before the killing when he saw the woman and her husband imbibing in the village.
He waited until they went home, and when he was certain that they were asleep, he pried open a window and entered the house. Police say that fingerprints obtained from a window sill, matched Khan’s.

Since he was familiar with the interiors of the house, having spent extended time there whenever Bharrat was away at sea, Khan had no problems making his way to the bedroom without alarm.
According to a source, Khan told investigators that he quietly awoke the woman and urged her to leave the house with him.
He even claimed that he had sex with her in the house while he thought that the husband was fast asleep.
He said that the husband eventually awoke and found him and the woman in a compromising position and that he had no other choice but to kill him. He admitted chopping the woman when she tried to intervene.
According to Khan, he and Lomattie eventually left the house while her husband lay dead in a pool of blood.
“He is claiming that after she get chop, she begged and agreed to leave with him, but while they were a few houses away she began to feel faint and he jumped on his bicycle and rode away,” a police source told this newspaper.
While investigators are not buying his entire version of events, the latter part of his story is consistent with what an eyewitness told detectives; that both Khan and the woman, whose skin was covered with blood, were seen on the road shortly after the killing.
But during a confrontation at the Cove and John Police Station yesterday, the woman maintained that she and her husband were asleep when she heard the swishing of a cutlass and felt the wetness of blood that was spraying from a gaping wound to her husband’s neck.
She said that she jumped up and saw her lover hacking away at her husband and begged him to stop.
When she tried to stop him, Khan turned the cutlass on her before fleeing the house in haste. She claimed that she waited a while before going over to a neighbour and told him that bandits had attacked.
Neighbours claimed that they heard no screams from the woman on the night in question. This raised suspicion that she knew the attacker.
Although investigators have a confession statement from Khan, they will now have to piece together all the information to make a clear, airtight case against him, where there will be no loophole to enable him to walk free.

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