Latest update February 10th, 2025 2:25 PM
Berbice mother beaten, burnt to death…Cops turn attention to daughter
Detectives, in pursue of the theory that insurance might have been the motive behind the death of the Berbice mother, who was bound, gagged, beaten and left to die in her burning house last Sunday, have arrested the woman’s daughter,
Dead: Anita Baichan
who was said to be the beneficiary.
The daughter, a teacher, was taken into custody Thursday night. A police source confirmed that she will be held for an initial 72 hours during which she will be interrogated by investigators.
Kaieteur News was informed that 49-year-old Anita Baichan’s Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice, home was insured.
However, it is unclear how much the property was covered for.
Baichan’s son, Moshim Khan, who was also beaten by the men and managed to escape, is on record telling media operatives that the armed men fetched gasoline to the location to burn the property.
With this being said, ranks are now trying to determine whether the two sadistic men went to the location with the intention of burning the two-bedroom home.
Given the theory that the 49-year-old woman might have been killed because of the insurance, detectives arrested her daughter.
The young woman arrived here from the United States of America (USA) four hours after her mother was bound, ganged, beaten and left to die in the burning building.
A police source said that the young lady has been providing investigators with conflicting information as it relates to the relationship she reportedly shared with a former murder accused. That individual is being considered the prime suspect, in Baichan’s death.
Two years ago, the former murder accused, who is an ex-cop and another individual were charged with the execution-style murder of a woman and wounding of her sister. The matter was subsequently discharged.
Police have several other persons in custody in an effort to bring closure to this case soon.
When this newspaper contacted Baichan’s relatives yesterday, they were determined that the woman’s daughter was innocent and that robbery was indeed the motive.
A post mortem examination done on the remains of Baichan revealed that she died from smoke inhalation.
Baichan’s son, in an interview, told this newspaper that the masked men entered the two storey house by removing a part of the grill work at one of the windows in the bottom flat.
He explained that he and his mother went to bed around 21:00 hrs on Saturday after watching a movie.
“I deh sleeping and I feel a sharp lash around my eye and before meh could open meh eye, meh feel another one and then me see a man standing in front of me with a cutlass to my neck and he said to me, ‘Don’t make noise,’. Then I realized someone chopping meh in me sleep,” Khan recalled.
He said that the intruder tied him with strips of cloth and dragged him to his mother’s room where she was already tied and was being stomped on by another masked man as they continuously demanded cash.
Khan said that his mother suffered mostly. He said she was bleeding from her face and she was crying out in pain continuously. He noted, too, that she was losing consciousness.
“Meh asked dem to give me some Limacol to rub it on her and he (bandit) went and get it so meh stretch meh hand to collect it but he started making fun of us and he open it and throw it all over we and he take cream and spray it on us, and then one of them take a drink from the fridge and throw it on we. Them went mocking we when we begging for we life,” the son said.
The traumatized young man said that the two men ‘smoked weed’ and blew the smoke on their faces.
Investigations are ongoing.
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