Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Man, 21, remanded for dismembered body
After one week in police custody, 21-year-old Imran Ramsaywack made his first court appearance yesterday, to answer a charge of murder resulting from the brutal death of 45-year-old Samantha Benjamin.
Imran Ramsaywack being escorted after his court appearance yesterday.
Ramsaywack, who was unrepresented by an attorney, appeared before Magistrate Zamena Ali-Seepaul at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court and was promptly remanded to prison.
Smiling throughout the brief hearing, the accused appeared relieved to be let out from the cold concrete of the Cove and John lock-ups, where two other suspects in the woman’s murder remain.
Samantha Benjamin was killed in a house at Middle Walk, Buxton, on March 25, last, and her body was dismembered and subsequently dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. It was discovered the following morning, sparking outrage in the village which had not seen such brutality since the days of the crime wave a decade ago.
Ramsaywack, who hails from Adelphi Village, Canje, Berbice, was detained on March 31, after relatives of the dead woman began making inquiries into her disappearance.
Two other accomplices, Ritchie Roseman and Zachariah Alexander were arrested over the Easter weekend, while a fourth man who was also implicated, was arrested yesterday.
Relatives of the dead woman had waited patiently at the Cove and John police station compound throughout the morning and a part of the afternoon for the men to be marched before the court. However, the Director of Public Prosecutions took time to carefully peruse the file before advising that the suspect be charged, although everyone was expecting three persons to be charged.
By then, the Magistrate at Cove and John had left the bench, so there was a mad rush to catch the sitting Magistrate at Sparendaam.
In the Sparendaam magistrate’s court, Ramsaywack was not required to plead and the prosecutor Inspector Hattie Anthony, requested that he be remanded.
Before he was taken away, Ramsaywack begged the Magistrate to allow him to spend his remand time at the New Amsterdam Prison, a request that was promptly denied.
“I am not in a position to make that decision,” the Magistrate told Ramsaywack.
She then transferred the matter to the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court for May 4.
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