RELATIVES of dead Bridgette Gangadin, 30, of Lot 3 ‘E’ Lusignan Public Road, yesterday staged a picketing exercise outside Vigilance Police Station, also on East Coast Demerara, demanding justice for her. But Police asked them to remove as they paraded with placards while grass track racer Daveanand Gangadin was inside the compound.
One of the picketers, Natasha Bharrat alleged that her brother-in-law openly shouted that he murdered his wife and would walk free.
The man secured station bail on Thursday and it angered the relatives who suspect that the woman was the victim of her husband and said he has been taunting them since his release from the lock-ups, where he was being held since his detention early Sunday morning.
Bharrat told reporters: “There is no doubt in our minds that he did killed her and he may get away with the law but not from God.”
Mother of the deceased, Punarbattie Bharrat, 60, lamented, to the media, that the authorities have been giving them the run around since Thursday when they tried to get permission for a second post mortem on her daughter.
She informed that a Trinidadian pathologist is in Guyana but is unable to perform the autopsy because there are some legal loopholes which have not yet been overcome.
The sexagenarian cried that all she wants is justice for her daughter who endured many years of abuse and violence and died tragically Sunday morning.
There were conflicting reports about how her daughter met her demise, including one that she jumped from a vehicle which her husband was driving during a quarrel between them.
The man claimed that he panicked on realising that he had, accidentally, run over his wife and drove away from the scene.
He was, subsequently, held at the Enterprise home of friends.
Gangadin’s relatives were unsuccessful when they went to his Brickdam, Georgetown office to meet Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee, as a result of their dissatisfaction with the way the Police investigations are going.
Meanwhile, the dead woman will be cremated today at Good Hope Crematorium, also on East Coast Demerara, as the two families try to resolve issues which have arisen following the tragedy.
The autopsy, performed on Monday, May 2, by Dr. Nehaul Singh, established that the mother of three succumbed to a fractured skull and had suffered injuries consistent with her head being crushed.
She was found on the roadway at Vigilance and the Police, in a previously issued press release, said they were investigating her suspected murder and it had led to the arrest of her husband, Daveanand Gangadin.