Extension sought to keep rice farmer in custody

Aug 26, 2020 News

Canadian citizen’s kidnap/murder…

– file on two brothers sent for advice

Investigating ranks on the Canadian citizen’s murder have sought advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) on the way forward in the case.

Killed: Nicholas Jaipaul

This publication was informed that the files were prepared on the two brothers who are in custody and sent for advice. This was even as an extension was sought and subsequently granted to keep the alleged mastermind- a rice farmer- in custody for further questioning. He still remains mum about his role in the grisly crime.
The rice farmer is accused of hiring the brothers to kill Nicholas Jaipaul, 24, a Canadian citizen who returned to Guyana on vacation with his 86-year-old grandfather, Ramkissoon Jaipaul.
The alleged mastermind is said to have promised the brothers $500,000 to lure the grandfather with a ransom of $50M to a location under the pretense that they would release his grandson but there he, too, would have been killed. This was told to investigators by the brothers.
Nicholas Jaipaul was reportedly forcibly taken from his vacation home at Number 69 Village two Sundays ago.
The following day, the grandfather received a strange call from someone saying that they had his grandson. He said he immediately got the police involved and investigators jumped on the case. It was that very call that was traced that led to one of the brothers at a location in Georgetown.
He was subsequently arrested and during interrogation named the rice farmer as the mastermind and his brother as the person who helped him to burn the body of Nicholas after he was strangled. The body was burnt at a remote location in Moleson Creek, Region Six.
He led investigators to the crime scene and it was there that the bones and skull were found. A relative identified the remains based on a surgical procedure the young Jaipaul had on his head when he was younger.
Based on information provided by a source, the suspect had visited the home of the Jaipauls on that fateful Sunday to pick soursop leaves and had spent a few hours “gyaffing” with the victim. It is believed that the suspect returned that night and lured the victim out his house then killed him.
The brothers in custody are the sons of the maid who has been working with the Jaipauls since January.
They were also accused of murdering their stepfather in 2014 in Berbice. One brother was charged and spent two years in prison; he was freed in 2016 at the Berbice High Court for lack of evidence.