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Corentyne man dies five months after beating
… teen to be charged with murder
A Corentyne man, who was attacked and brutally beaten into unconsciousness five months
Accused: Haresh Persaud
ago by four men, has since died.
The man, Aslam Gaffour, 22, a cane harvester and father of two of Lot 235 No. 77 Corentyne, Berbice, died on Wednesday in the Georgetown Public Hospital, even after undergoing a number of surgeries.
After the incident, one man was subsequently charged with attempted murder and granted bail in the Springlands Magistrate’s Court on his first appearance. This was despite the victim lying critically ill in an unconscious state in the Hospital.
Gaffour was ambushed and beaten around 17:30 hrs on October 21, last, by the men with pieces of wood and a lug spanner which was subsequently flung at him and left stuck in his head. The incident occurred in the No. 77 Housing Scheme area.
The four men were subsequently arrested, but only Haresh Persaud, 19, of Lot 5 No. 75 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, was charged. He appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh in the Springlands Magistrate’s Court on a charge of attempted murder and was granted bail in the sum of $500,000.
The man has since been re-arrested and taken into custody as the file was prepared and sent for advice to charge the accused for murder.
He is being represented by Attorney at Law Krisendat Persaud. According to Gaffour’s mother,
Dead: Aslam Gaffour
Bibi N Shakemohamed, the accused began threatening her son over a year ago. This was after he was warned not to interfere with her daughter. The accused began to threaten to kill her son. On two previous occasions the accused and his colleagues attacked
Gaffour and damaged his motorcycle in the process.
The matter was reported. However, the police advised him to forget about the matter since the case will take a long time in the court.
The man’s wife, Tarzanna Nazrudeen, had stated that her husband was at a school sports event at Skeldon when the accused, his brother and two others approached him to fight. The man refused and left the sports on his motorcycle with the men trailing him in a car.
Gaffour sought refuge at a relative in the Housing Scheme. The men attempted to damage his bike which he left on the road. In an attempt to retrieve his bike he was attacked and beaten. When he tried to escape, a lug spanner was thrown at him. The spanner got stuck in his head. He was floored as the perpetrators escaped.
The woman said that her husband was picked up in an unconscious condition with blood oozing from his body and rushed to the Skeldon Hospital. He was immediately transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital and then to the Georgetown Public Hospital Intensive Care Unit for emergency surgery. He was subsequently transferred to the High Dependency Unit.
The man underwent a number of surgeries to his head due to internal bleeding and swelling on his brain.
Attorney at Law Mursalene Bacchus has been retained by the family to look into their interest.
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