WHAT started out as a normal police investigation by ranks of the Wales Police Station on the West Bank of Demerara into a number of break and enter incidents saw the police bumping into a more serious crime.

Two of the suspects in the break and enter investigation are a Guyanese couple wanted in Suriname for the attempted murder of 57-year- old Guyanese, Ormilda Surathally.
The story unfolded after residents of Belle West, Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara, grouped themselves and went to the Wales Police Station, where they reported that over the past few months they have been suffering great losses at the hands of burglars who prey on their homes in bright daylight.
This led to the police arresting several persons, including a couple whose only names were given as Samantha and her partner, Boogie.
Residents heard about the suspects at the station and made their way there to see if they could recognize any of them.
Ormilda Surathally was among the residents who turned up at the police station. She immediately recognized Samantha and Boogie as the couple who attempted to murder her in Suriname.
She related that they tried to kill her in February of this year at 15 Osskanna Street, New Nickerie, Suriname.
Ms Surathally said that she would normally travel between Guyana and Suriname. When in the neighbouring country, she would rent a section of her property to persons, mostly Guyanese. She added that while over there last February, Samantha and her friend and partner in crime, Boogie, approached her for a place to live, claiming that they had nowhere to go and really needed a place.
She said she knew that Samantha was a thief, and she pleaded with her and her friend to change their way of living and to join the church.
The woman said that for a while the couple appeared to have changed their ways and she began to feel comfortable with them around.
Ms. Surathally said that one morning Samantha and her friend came over to her apartment, where she lived with a 29-year-old disabled daughter.
She said they were all in the sitting room when she suddenly blacked out, as if they had sprayed some substance in the air.
She regained consciousness to find Boogie trying to strangle her.
Surathally said that she managed to fight the man off and as she stood up she was dealt two cuffs to her face.
Surathally said that she then saw Samantha approaching with a rope in her hand and she placed it around her neck and began dragging her outside of the house through the back door.
Surathally said that it was there that she began begging the couple not to kill her and offered them to take whatever they wanted from the house.
This did not move them, she added, as Boogie began to tie her hands behind her back.
According to the woman, it was after her hands were tied that Samantha began stabbing her in the back with a knife.
The woman explained to the Guyana Chronicle that through the ordeal at the back of the house, she cried loudly for help from neighbors, as she repeated the words, “they murdering me, y’all come they murdering me”. But no one came to her rescue.
Surathally said that somehow her hands became untied and she got up and ran, scaling a fence and running into a nearby police station.
She related her story to the police, who went to her home and removed her disabled daughter, taking her to a nursing home. The police told her that her tormentors were nowhere to be seen.
Surathally was admitted to a hospital where she spent six days, with a wound on her head taking 47 stitches.
The police searched the apartment Samantha and Boogie were renting, where they found pictures of the couple. The police in the Dutch speaking country then issued wanted bulletins for the two, while Surathally and her daughter returned to Guyana.
She said that there were times when she noticed that her daughter would act strangely when the couple was around. The woman said that her daughter cannot speak or walk, but it seemed she was trying to tell her something.
Yesterday at the Wales Police Station, Ms. Ormilda Surathally showed this publication the scars that are still evident on parts of her body, including her head, back, foot and legs.
After listening to the woman’s report, the police at the Wales Station issued her with a sealed letter to take to the police in Suriname at the earliest possible time. She said that the letter seeks to inform the law men in the neighbouring country that the two suspects are in the custody of the Guyana police. The woman said that she will be travelling to Suriname today to deliver the letter to the police there.