No arrest yet in septuagenarian poultry farmer murder
NO ARRESTS have been made but Police are interviewing neighbours and drawing out known characters since the brutal murder of home-alone poultry farmer, Ramlogan Singh, of Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday. Several drug addicts were, initially, detained but released later, the Assistant Commissioner said.
Persaud said the dead man’s daughter reported to the police that she would, usually, sleep with him but it rained heavily the night before the discovery and she did not get to go there.
The woman, Gyatrie Nanku, 46, told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday it is believed that Singh was surprised in his home by more than one person, who attacked him in his bed.
She said the killers cut the telephone cord and used it to bind the man’s hands and feet while the bed sheet was torn to cover his mouth.
Nanku said her father, 73, had been living alone for the past 14 years since her mother went overseas, and he operated a small scale chicken business, rearing the birds and selling them.
She said, she often checked on him but is clueless as to what really transpired since there are no visible signs of forced entry but the place was ransacked and a small amount of cash is missing.
She believes that it is the work of some drug addicts (junkies) in the village, who smoke cannabis sativa (marijuana) because the small ziplock plastic bag, in which the narcotic is stored along with matches were found at the scene.
Nanku told the Guyana Chronicle, the criminals had ample time to search the place because of the heavy rainfall, and a sibling who resides next door, returned home after 22:00 hrs Sunday night but did not hear or see anything unusual.
She suspects that her father was murdered sometime between 01:00 hrs and 02:00 hrs Sunday morning as, that morning, one of his regular customers went to buy chickens and he did not answer to the man’s calls, causing the son to check and make the discovery of his parent’s lifeless body.
The deceased will be laid to rest later this week, leaving two daughters and three sons, some of whom live in other East Coast Demerara villages.
He was the grandfather of the Administrator of the Palms, Mr. Govind Singh.