OUTAR Ramphal, 50 years, died as a result of lacerations to the head  coupled with shock and haemorrhage, along with diabetes.

These findings were revealed after Government Pathologist Dr.Vivikanand Brijmohan performed  an autopsy at the Skeldon Hospital Mortuary yesterday.
Between Saturday night and the early hours of  Sunday morning, bandits forced their way into the man’s home where  he and his elderly mother  were  beaten  by the intruders, who were armed with cutlasses and demanded  cash and jewellery from the family.
Ramphal, of Lot 54 Princeton, Corriverton, Corentyne, Berbice was pronounced dead on arrival at the Skeldon Hospital while his mother Champwattie Ramphal, 74, had to receive medical care.
It was also reported that $35,000, along with a pair of boots and a finger-ring were stolen from the modest home.
Ramphal reported that she along with her physically challenged son were sleeping when the bandits attacked them.
According to her,  the men dragged her  from her bed, before asking, “Whey the money deh?” Then  she received a  stab below her chin and several cuts on her hands.
During the ordeal, the masked men  threatened to kill her great grandson who was sleeping with her on the  bed.  “They placed a knife on his neck”  and I pleaded with them to save his life, she recounted .
In the meantime, the pensioner heard the voices of two other bandits as they attacked her son, who was sleeping in the living room of the one-bedroom house.
“If you heard how they were beating him mercilessly, he couldn’t ah seh anything…now he is dead,” she cried.
“I then called out to the neighbours but no one  heard me…  but my grandson came home  afterwards and he sought assistance to take his unconscious uncle to the hospital.
“Me nah know how dem come fu rob we… sometimes neighbours give me food… I am a pensioner and my son receives public assistance … We are very poor people. Why would people do this to us,” she lamented as her eyes filled with tears.
Meanwhile, one person remains in police custody.