BHARAT Petamber, 26, of 1401 Section C Block Y, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, was last evening robbed and murdered a short distance from where he operates a tailoring business.

The Guyana Chronicle Newspaper was told that the man was apparently on his way home when he was attacked and killed.

Speaking with this publication at the Diamond Hospital last evening, his wife, Menedai Persaud, said that she was at home when she got the news. She said that her husband, whom she married a year and a half ago, telephoned her to say that he was selling his bird for $45.000 and that he would be going and purchase another one for $15.000 less.
At the time he met his demise he had already sold the bird but was not yet able to purchase the other one. She said that after he called her to tell her that he was coming home she waited a while for him and did not see him. The woman said that she then began calling his cell phone and it rang out.
Shortly after two of the man’s friends came to her house in a taxi and informed her that there was a party of police at the location next to where her husband has his business. There she was told that her husband was robbed and stabbed.
She rushed to the hospital only to be told that he had died.
Last evening relatives at the hospital were weeping uncontrollably, asking why someone would want to murder the young man who is yet to see his six-month- old daughter grow up.

(By Leroy Smith)