GUYANA Chronicle understands that Annand Ramkissoon, his employer and another person are being held at the Sparendaam Police Station in connection with the death of 76-year-old David Ramkissoon, a Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) pensioner who was, on Sunday evening, found dead in his home by relatives.Nalini Ramkissoon, wife of the suspect Annand Ramkissoon, who is a son of the deceased, told Guyana Chronicle on Monday that she and other relatives went to a creek on Sunday as part of a family outing, but her father-in-law opted not to go. Upon their return from the outing, she and her husband found their rooms ransacked and the pensioner lifeless on a chair in the living room.

“We left around 12 on Sunday to go to the creek… When we left, my father-in-law was rocking in the hammock,” the woman said. She noted that because the pensioner had opted not to go to the creek with them, several calls were made to him to ensure he was ok, but unfortunately, those calls went unanswered. She claims that neither she nor her husband had found the unanswered calls suspicious, as the elderly Ramkissoon would usually take afternoon strolls.

She said family returned home at Better Hope at approximately 7:30pm on Sunday, and noticed that the lights in the house were off and the doors open.

“When we go inside, my husband (Annand Ramkissoon) went upstairs to check the rooms, but found them ransacked… When he come down now, he saw his father in a pool of blood on the chair with his throat slit,” she recounted.

Neighbours were alerted and the police were called. The elder Ramkissoon was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).