Drunken intruder fatally stabs groom’s brother-in-law at wedding

Aug 10, 2016 News

Dead: Arnold Rattan

Wedding celebrations at a Sister’s Village, West Bank Demerara house came to an abrupt end at around 23.30 hrs on Monday, when a drunken intruder fatally stabbed the groom’s brother-in-law outside the wedding house.
Arnold Rattan, a 46-year-old tractor operator, of 299 Long Pond, Sister’s Village, was stabbed under the left armpit and succumbed shortly after at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
Angry guests tied up the alleged killer and handed him over to the police when he tried to escape.
The suspect is a 31-year-old fruit vendor from Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara.
A resident said that prior to stabbing Rattan, the suspect, who was intoxicated, had first entered another yard, two properties away, where another wedding was in progress.
Because the man was not invited and was being a nuisance, the residents put the man out of the yard on four occasions.
The drunken man then went over to the wedding that Rattan was attending and, when he continued to misbehave, Rattan, who has a four-year-old daughter, escorted him out of the yard.
“Solomon (the suspect) come in and behave bad, and the guy (Rattan) hold him and take him out of the yard and the next thing we see is blood gushing…the man jook him,” one guest said.
A taxi driver said that he took the wounded man to the West Demerara Regional Hospital. He recalled that Rattan was unable to speak and was trying to sit. He said that Rattan succumbed about 20 minutes after arriving at the hospital.
After stabbing Rattan, the assailant jumped into a shallow trench in a bid to escape. Some of the residents dragged him out, tied him up and handed him over to the police. He was detained at La Grange Police Station.

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