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Woman’s ‘ex’ detained after suspicious Cogland Dam fire
Investigators from the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Fire Service are locked in intensive investigations to determine the cause of a fire that completely destroyed a two story building at Cogland Dam, West Bank Demerara,
Now homeless, a distraught Kousilla Bhagwandin contemplates her next move.
shortly after midday yesterday.
Their suspicions are aroused by the fact that the fire started a few hours after the male owner of the house, Youmanram Bissesar, was served with a restraining order by his ex-wife, Kousilla Bhagwandin, who was occupying the property with her two small sons.
But at the time of the blaze no one was at home. However police are keeping Bissesar in custody as they intensify their probe.
Neighbours said that they saw fire coming from the kitchen area of the house a few hours after the last occupant left, and by the time they could respond, the fire quickly engulfed the building, eventually flattening it.
A distraught Bhagwandin told this newspaper that she and Bissesar separated five years ago but she remained in the house with her two sons age seven and five years old. She said that her ex-husband started life with another family.
She said that three years ago, her ex-husband threatened to burn the house down, a matter that was reported to the police at the Vreed- en- Hoop Police Station. Bissesar was subsequently
What is left of the two story house at Cogland Dam.
bonded by a Magistrate.
According to Bhagwandin, on Saturday Bissesar and his new wife along with their two children came to the house and forcibly occupied one of the rooms in the upper flat.
The woman said that she felt uncomfortable and went to the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station to make a report.
However, the police told her that there was nothing they could do at the time, since Bissesar still had rights to the property.
The police advised Bhagwandin that if she wanted Bissesar and his new wife out, she would have to get a restraining order from a Magistrate.
The restraining order was granted and Bhagwandin subsequently served it on her ex-husband who is a food vendor in the city.
“I serve him the order at 10 o’clock….his wife was still in the house at the time, but after I serve him, she must have heard about it because she left a few minutes after.” Bhagwandin told Kaieteur News.
She said that her husband’s new wife eventually turned up at her workplace in Georgetown and requested some keys to the house, claiming that she wanted to remove some of her items from the property.
Bhagwandin, who had earlier taken her two sons to a daycare centre, said that she gave the woman the keys and subsequently left work to go home to ensure that nothing that belonged to her was removed.
“By the time I reach half way through the dam, I hear the house burn,” Bhagwandin said.
She could not say if the woman or her husband had returned to the house shortly before the fire started.
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