A THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD man was fatally stabbed by his stepfather early yesterday morning at their Lot 127 Lincoln Street, Enterprise, East Coast Demerara home, during yet another quarrel between them. The victim is Lakeram Persaud called ‘Bojo’, a labourer, whose alleged assailant, Albert Andres, 74, was promptly arrested and taken into custody shortly after, when the mother of the deceased, who witnessed her son’s murder, alerted neighbours, who summoned the police.
Amidst sobs, the woman, Ramkumarie Manbhal told the Guyana Chronicle that she, being unwell, was in bed and her son offered to make her a cup of tea.
A few minutes after he went downstairs, she heard her reputed husband telling her son he was disturbing him by opening the kitchen door and then, on hearing a loud commotion, she got up and ventured to enquire.
The woman said when she reached the bottom flat of the two-storeyed wooden house, she saw Andres in the process of stabbing her son, who could not defend himself and was bleeding profusely as he ran out of the house and collapsed.
She said after the killing of her son with a knife he usually carries around, the killer calmly changed his shirt and said he was going to tell the police what he had done. But the police arrived soon after and apprehended him.
The woman said Andres, her reputed husband of seven years, always had a problem with her son and they often quarrelled. For that reason, the latter was hardly at home and did odd jobs around the village.
Manbhal had been renting the house where she lived with Andres, a bulldozer operator, who was very abusive to she and her son whom he did not like.
She, however, said her son was a peaceful person, who did not drink much alcohol but was a habitual smoker. She said the way he met his demise was uncalled for, since he often avoided contact with her reputed husband in view of the frequent verbal abuse.
Manbhal, a mother of two, said her reputed husband had, repeatedly,   threatened to end her son’s life but she never thought he would actually do it.
Meanwhile, Kamini Carittar, reputed wife of the deceased, who went to the scene of the tragedy yesterday, said they had separated about five years ago but they have a 13-year-old son and she still used to visit the family, the last time, when he was alive about three weeks ago.
She learnt of his death when one of his relatives telephoned her and she hurried to the house where her worst fears were confirmed.