DEODAT Persaud called ‘Simon’, 21, of Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant, Corentyne, who was the main suspect in the murders of Flory Papiah and Jennifer Pooran, died at the New Amsterdam Hospital, also in Berbice, on  Sunday. He succumbed about 19:30 hrs at the institution where he had been admitted and remained under police guard following the killing of the two women, with whom he had gone to cut coconut branches for making brooms.
Persaud had ingested a poisonous liquid before being taken into custody and confessed to having killed the women after they accused him of stealing money from sale of the brooms they, together, had made.
The bodies of thirty-three-year-old Papiah and Pooran, 19, also of Miss Phoebe, were found on Sunday, September 30, in the backlands at Adventure, another part of Corentyne, with wounds to their throats.
The broom vendors had left home around 07:30 hrs on Saturday to make brooms in the backdam and were expected back around 14:00 hrs but did not return, and when Persaud arrived without the women, Papiah’s daughters questioned him about their whereabouts. It was after sometime that he made the confession and drank the poison, which caused him to collapse and be taken to hospital.
Days after Persaud told police investigators he had murdered the women after they confronted him about some missing cash from the sale of the brooms which the trio used to cut branches and make.
The corpses were found apart and it is believed that they were attacked separately. Pooran’s neck bore a long slash while Papiah’s mouth was slit and there was a gaping wound across her breast, as well.