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“We intended to rob, not kill…” Detained fishermen confess to carrying out deadly Corentyne piracy attack
Planned while they were out at sea, five fishermen carefully concocted a plot on their fishing boat to rob other fishermen of their catch.
Vishnu Seeram
Marvin Tamasar
Unfortunately for Captain Vishnu Seeram, his boat, with his three-man crew, crossed paths with the five fishermen, who not only robbed Seeram’s vessel, but hacked the crew to death and dumped them overboard.
This is the story that detained suspects “Chu-Chu-Bai” from Belvedere Squatting Area and “Buckman” of Belvedere Village have told investigators happened to captain Seeram, Ajai Kissoon, Marvin Tamasar and Lamar Petrie.
Detectives from the Whim Police Station arrested the two suspects on Friday. They are said to have cracked late Monday afternoon and began to detail how they carried out the grisly act for a meagre amount of fish.
Police sources told Kaieteur News that they are hunting for three other suspects that the two detained fishermen identified. The accomplices are said to be from the lower Corentyne.
In their confession, the suspects said they attacked Seeram’s vessel with his crewmen, Ajai Kissoon, Marvin Tamasar and Lamar Petrie some eight miles from the Number 53 shore.
Ajai Kissoon
The ill-fated vessel (saved as the vessel)
They relayed that they had ventured out to sea with three others, but after turning up with very little catch, they decided to rob other fishermen.
“After dem barely catch fish, dem decided to attack other boats and steal their catch”, the source said.
But things reportedly escalated when Captain Seeram and his crew put up a fight. The ‘pirates’ allegedly responded by chopping the four fishermen. They then tied their victims and dumped them overboard.
The killers then made off with the slain crewmen’s fish and boat engine.
The incident occurred a few days after October 5, when Seram’s vessel, “SARA-1”, had gone out to sea from the Number 65 wharf.
Kaieteur News understands that a file on the case has already been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The two men are expected to be charged today, while police seek to track down their accomplices.
On Saturday October 5, Vishnu Seeram, called Kevin of Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant’ Marvin Tamasar, Lamar Petrie (of the same area) and Ajai Kissoon of Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne, Berbice, left for a two-week fishing trip.
The following week, a bound corpse washed up on the Abary foreshore. Two days later, police on the Corentyne visited the families of Seeram, Kissoon, Tamasar and Petrie to inform them that Seeram’s boat was found between the Wellington Park and Phillipe Village foreshore.
Blood was reportedly spattered in the boat, and the engine was missing.
Kissoon’s wife was informed via social media that a body was found at Abary.
The victim was positively identified as Ajai Kissoon.
A few days later, another body, also bound by the hands and feet, washed up on the Abary foreshore. That victim was identified as Lamar Petrie.
A post-mortem examination conducted on the bodies by government Pathologist Nehaul Singh had revealed that both men died from drowning and wounds to the head.
The bodies of Marvin Tamasar and Vishnu Seeram are still to be located.
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