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Missing boy’s body in drain…Woman tells cops spouse confessed to killing
A Number 58 Village, Corentyne woman may have helped detectives to solve the murder of 14-year-old Akeem Grimmond, whose body was found in a drain last Monday.
Murdered: Akeem Grimmond
The woman has reportedly told police that her husband admitted to killing the lad, and also told her to “buy coffee and biscuits” for the slain boy’s wake.
Both husband and wife were detained yesterday after the woman went to the police with her story.
However, Kaieteur News understands that the suspect is now telling investigators that he did not kill Grimmond.
A post mortem conducted yesterday by Government Pathologist Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan gave the cause of death as suffocation and compaction of mud in the airways. The findings suggested that someone had pressed the 14-year-old boy’s face-down in the drain in which he was found.
Because decomposition had set in, the pathologist was reportedly unable to detect further signs of assault.
Yesterday, the slain lad’s stepfather, Ryan Persaud, appealed for justice.
He said that the tragedy is particularly stressful on his pregnant wife, who is scheduled to deliver this week.
He said that the suspect is a ’junkie’ who lives a few villages away. Kaieteur News understands that the suspect was previously charged for murder.
Akeem Grimmond’s body was found at around 13:00 hrs on Monday at Number 61 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, two days after he went missing.
The school dropout, of 53 Section ‘B’ Number 61 Village, was last seen alive around 17:30 hrs last Saturday when he left his home to tend to some cows.
According to his mother, 32-year-old Parbattie Takurdyal, her son would usually tend to a villager’s cows which he would round up in the afternoons.
The grief-stricken woman stated that the lad left home as usual to go to the Number 61 backdam to collect the cows, but failed to return.
After she did not see him around 20:30 hrs she made a report at the No. 62 police outpost.
Search parties were then organized and the badly decomposed body was found around 15:00 hrs in a drain aback of a burial ground some 700 yards west of the public road in the same village. The corpse reportedly bore a four-inch wound behind the left ear. The body was in a state of decomposition. Grimmond was clad in the same clothes that he had left home with- a pair of green short pants and red and white vest.
The lad was reportedly last seen by a neighbour around 17:00 on Saturday while he was in the backdam.
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