Duo caught on camera jumping into elderly man’s yard, vandalising car

Meanwhile, about five years ago, another villager who reportedly had a misunderstanding with the same neighbour, was awakened by a loud explosion. On that occasion, Molotov cocktails were reportedly hurled at the villager’s house, resulting in a small fire igniting. However, the fire was put out without serious damage to the building.

On June 16, 2011, another of Persaud’s neighbours had his vehicle set on fire. Mike Persaud of Lot 54 Section C Bush Lot, a contractor and Chairman of the Bush Lot Community Policing Group (CPG), related “there was

Two men have been caught on camera jumping into the yard of a Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) resident and vandalising his car.

The incident occurred at about 1:45h on Saturday.

Lakeram Persaud, 61, said it was the first time such an incident occurred at his residence. The man said he has been living at that location all his life.

“We hear the big explosion from upstairs and when we come out, we see what happen,” the resident related to this publication.

Both the front and back windscreens along with the front lights of his car were shattered.

Persaud believes that the men were hired and were acting upon the instructions of one of his neighbours.

He explained that he had three concrete blocks on his bridge to prevent persons from parking in his driveway, adding that customers to the next-door business place would block his entrance, forcing him to have to wait long periods to get in and out of his yard.

“I went to the Regional Chairman and complain and the Regional Chairman asked me to make them (the blocks) and put them there so when I am ready to come in and go out, I must get access.”

“I have a truck and a car and sometimes when the truck come, the driver would have to wait for hours on the road for people to move their vehicles.”

The blocks had been there for the past four years. Recently, however, the neighbour reportedly removed them so that his customers can get parking.

“He just come and pull them and throw them in the drain.”

Persaud said he reported the matter to the Police and was not satisfied with the response and subsequently telephoned the Deputy Commander who, he said, told him that the Police can do nothing about the issue.

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It was also revealed that at some point when Narinedatt left to use the washroom, Bisram followed him and allegedly began making sexual advances to him by touching his penis.

The carpenter rejected the advances by telling Bisram, “Me don’t go in for man. Me got wife and children”. With Bisram refusing to stop, Narinedatt slapped him and walked away.

It was reported that an upset Bisram walked to the front of his yard where he informed Dickie, Motie, Datt, Parsram and Yacoob, that Narinedatt had slapped him and that they must “beat um till he dead”. As such, the carpenter was severely beaten with pieces of wood, and his lifeless body was thrown in a car and then on the Number

70 Village, Corentyne, Berbice Public Road.

One of the men then used his car to drive over Narinedatt’s body to make it appear like a vehicular accident.

Legal battles

Meanwhile, Bisram was extradited to Guyana to face a charge for the carpenter’s killing. However, at the end of two separate Preliminary Inquiries (PI), he was discharged because of insufficient evidence. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, would thereafter step in, directing the Magistrate to commit Bisram to face a trial at the High Court.

The businessman challenged the DPP’s directive, which was subsequently

FROM PAGE 8 quashed by High Court Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall, who also barred Ali-Hack from proffering a murder indictment against him. An appeal against that Judge’s decision was filed by the DPP to the Court of Appeal of Guyana, which overturned the lower court’s decision, ordering that Bisram be arrested and tried for the capital offence.

But Bisram then challenged the local appeal court’s ruling at the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). In March of last year, the apex court restored the High Court Judge’s decision but ruled that nothing prevented the DPP from having Bisram re-arrested and charged again if fresh evidence is obtained linking him to the murder.

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an issue with a neighbour where his customer’s vehicles would come and park on my driveway, blocking it. I complained about it twice and I was told to go and do what [I] want to do, including contacting the Police.”

According to the contractor, there was another incident where his neighbour was playing loud music. He subsequently contacted the Police who responded and ensured that the music was turned off.

“Two weeks after that, I was awoken by a loud bang, the barking of the neighbour’s dogs and after that, there was an explosion. Luckily, I was awake and when I went outside, there were two guys running from the yard. I have a pick-up truck that was in the flames – the whole thing was engulfed in flames,” the man related.

That matter is still being investigated.

Meanwhile, 61-year-old Lakeram Persaud said he is scared.

“Now I am afraid. Just how they jump and come in, they can come and kill us,” Persaud expressed, referring to himself and his wife.

Telephone calls to the Regional Commander’s mobile phone went unanswered.