POLICE dealing with the investigations into the dismemberment of United States-based businesswoman, Samantha Benjamin, whose body was discovered at the Annandale foreshore, are looking to ensure that when the matter is called to trial, they have a very strong case against the accused.Police sources close to the investigation told the Guyana Chronicle Thursdaythat there are persons who are familiar with what went on in the house, and what was communicated to them by the suspect, Kevin Ramsawck, who has since been charged with the murder of the woman.
According to information reaching this newspaper, no one else is likely to be charged with the woman’s murder as investigators are seeking to use a number of state witnesses, persons who have vital information to lead to the successful conviction of the young man who is at present on remand.
In March the decapitated body of the woman was found among the boulders at the Annandale foreshore, and her head, hands and limbs were missing.
It took the police almost one week to come up with the identity of the woman after her relatives became suspicious that the remains were that of Samantha after they had failed to make contact with her.
The woman who travelled often between Guyana and the United States was apparently here without her relatives knowing of her visit so when the body was discovered it did not immediately cross the minds of relatives that the remains could have been hers.
When the identity of the woman was revealed, persons then became aware that the hacking to death of the woman took place just two houses across the road but strangely enough no open saw anything although they did hear strange noises.
Investigators were told by persons in the area that the night before the body was discovered, they heard loud music in the house and what appeared to be the sounds of a woman screaming. However this did not raise their suspicion and the unusual sounds went unchallenged.
The suspect who later named two other persons as his accomplices in the crime also told investigators that after they hacked the woman during a robbery to obtain her gold and money, they placed her in a wheel barrow and went down to the foreshore to allow for easy disposal of the body.
The matter is at present engaging the magistrate’s court.

By Leroy Smith