THE brother of murdered businesswoman, Patricia Sanasie yesterday released a recording to the media which purportedly features the voice of his now deceased sister and an alleged hitman.
Yesterday Vishnu Persaud, the younger brother of Patricia Sanasie, held a press conference where he said that he was fearful for his life after listening to a recording between his sister and the hitman and another recording between an alleged hitman and the woman’s husband in which the woman’s husband promised that his intentions were to kill Patricia Sanasie and her brother as he was not prepared to go down alone.The tape featured two sets of recordings, one where the voice was purportedly that of the dead woman’s husband and the hitman and the husband spoke of “three of we going one time” in an apparent reference to the woman, her brother and himself meeting their demise.The man was at the time speaking with another male in which the conversation also touched on the issue of his building at Mc Doom Public Road which he handed over to the woman to control with 700 children. That building would be the same one that housed the Academy of Professional Studies.
In the recording, this publication heard the woman’s husband lamenting how the woman wasted money and spent huge sums to have her hair done and piercing on her nose while her brother and other persons bled her of the funds that the school was making, causing it to run virtually bankrupt.
The purported voice of the businessman also spoke of his frustration and his decision to write a will in the name of his two daughters and sign everything over to them, including a property in Trinidad, something he reportedly had already discussed with them according to the recording.
However it was the second recording which really confirmed that there may have been orders for the woman to be executed and that the woman’s husband may have been instrumental in organising her execution.
The caller who identified himself as an ex-policeman gave his name as Michael Anderson. The recording featured the voices of the now dead woman and the would-be assassin who said that he decided to inform her of the plan to carry out a hit on her as ordered by her husband because he (the hitman) was given a wrong deal by the woman’s husband.
For most of the conversation, the voice purported to be that of the now dead Patricia Sanasie was more interested in finding out from the alleged hitman how he got her number, what caused him to trust her to reveal the plan to her and what work he did and where he was from.
The man answered all the questions stating that he was a former policeman, stated that he lived in Georgetown but was placing the call to her from Berbice and that he decided to tell her of the plan because her husband had wronged him and because he has a sister and mother also.
The alleged hitman, however, asked the woman to assure him that the information that he was sharing with her was going to remain confidential even as they made plans to meet when he travelled from Berbice to Georgetown. The man also gave his number to the woman during the conversation. However, when this newspaper dialed the number which is registered to GT&T, the phone was turned off.
Also in the recording, the man who identified himself as the hitman, and who admitted to being in the business of carrying out hits for people, said that he chose to come to the woman and relate the plan on the basis of principle. He also confirmed to her that he was contracted several months prior to them having the conversation.
On January 12, Patricia Sanasie was gunned down in front of her home as she was attempting to enter her yard. The woman’s death was witnessed by one of her daughters and eyewitnesses did say that the person who carried out the act was big built and arrived at the scene in a silver coloured Toyota Raum motorcar.
The police have since come up blank in their investigation of the woman’s murder. In 2014 the woman’s husband survived an execution attempt which he claimed was orchestrated by his wife and her brother, the same young man who held the press conference yesterday expressing fear for his life.