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Jairam Persaud, aka Ramesh or Truck, a handy man of Canal Number One, was badly beaten in the vicinity of the Stabroek Square and succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Complex. Jairam would have left his home and head to the city in search of work on Tuesday and died on Wednesday.
Jairam in happier times.
Tuesday morning, Jairam in the company of others, left to go work in the Station Street, Kitty area but never returned home.
The family of the dead man told Kaieteur News, Jairam worked as a handyman and periodically suffered seizures which prevented him from holding a stable job.
His dad, Vickram Persaud, aka Manee Man, a vendor at Stabroek Market ventured to the home of the employer to ask the whereabouts of his son. Vickram was informed that Jairam would have collected $1000 from his employer, a Canadian resident, and left to go to a nearby shop but never returned.
The next morning Vickram frantically went in search of his son, searching any and everywhere he could think his son could possibly be.
His last hope was the hospital. When he arrived at the GPHC and inquired about his son he was told that his son would have checked himself into the hospital around 8:30 Tuesday night and passed away 10:30 am the following day.
While being a patient at the GPHC Jairam would have told officials his injuries were caused as a result of him being attacked and beaten by five or six persons in the vicinity of Stabroek Square. This was relayed to KN by the family of the deceased.
Calls to the D Division Commander Mr. Edmond Cooper went unanswered.
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