A 26-YEAR-old mason reportedly confessed to brutally killing his reputed wife and her lover at Tain Village in Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice just after 03:00 hrs yesterday.The suspect told investigators that he was fed-up of being “put on wait” while his reputed wife of two years, Parbatie Vyrauen 38, carried on a relationship with the overseas-based Ramdat

Persaud, 59 years.

As a result, he premeditated the horrendous act and waited until the couple had retired before he climbed on two buckets, broke a western window and crawled through. He then lingered for hours in the lower flat which housed the kitchen and when he was certain that the couple had retired, he crept up an inner stairway and into a bedroom where his wife and the man were asleep on a mattress.

Armed with a cutlass, the first blow struck at Parbattie Vyrauen’s neck while her lover, Ramdat Persaud sustained an incised wound to his head.
As blood spilled across the freshly painted walls of the new house the injured couple was unable to leave the bedroom.

Apparently, their killer watched them die before fleeing the very way he had entered the house.

He returned to his ‘batchie’ (bachelor’s quarters) at Kilcoy, another Corentyne location, before going to work at Hampshire Village, where he worked as a mason. He was at work, covered with cement, when he was arrested.

Meanwhile, Eddie Ramdanan, a caretaker, made his usual calls for Ramdat Persaud, shortly after 06:00 hrs yesterday morning, but his calls went unanswered. As a result he went to the western side of the house where he saw two buckets, one on top of the other, and a broken window, where he suspected that someone

may have gained entry.

He shouted to a nearby neighbour and relayed his suspicion before the police were notified. The detectives subsequently discovered the motionless bodies of Vyrauen and Persaud, lying on a mattress in a northeastern bedroom.
The two bodies were taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where Dr. Vivikanand Brijmohan preformed autopsies. He said death was as a result of shock and haemorrhage due to incised wounds.

Meanwhile, at the crime scene relatives of Persaud said he was an individual who never discussed his personal affairs. They had warned him of continuing his relationship with the 38-year-old woman, who worked next door as a domestic help but their advice was ignored.

However, at Vyrauen’s parents’ home at Lot 1 Kilcoy Road, her parents, who are American citizens, were appalled at the senseless killing of their eldest child.

Surujdai Vyrauen was scheduled to leave the country on Saturday. She arrived three weeks ago, with the aim of spending some time with her daughter and her two teenaged grandsons.

It was after 19:00 hrs when they last spoke.

“(Parbatie) was going to her friend at Tain. I told her to take her eldest son along, as she was taking a quantity of fish and shrimp to be stored in a freezer. The items were to be frozen to facilitate the long distance travel this weekend,” the distraught mother related.

“However, (Parbatie) insisted that she would go alone, and would be returning at 06:00 hrs on Wednesday but she never returned…This morning several persons called asking for her. I told them she was not there….one of her friends called asking where she slept….The friend say something gone wrong and let me go to her work place…lots of people are outside the house of her friend at (Tain) and they are saying (Parbatie) and her friend were murdered…. My husband and the others went….they say she was killed….,” the mother related while crying.

According to her, the suspect was always trying to blackmail her daughter and would never leave her side, although she attempted to leave him.
In December, Ramdat Persaud sustained an injury to his head, and as a result Parbatie threatened to leave the suspect but he was not leaving.
Reports are that after the alleged wounding, he had fled to Trinidad but returned recently and continued to pursue the relationship.

Relatives said it was after Parbatie had threatened to leave him for the much older man that he openly threatened to kill her.
Meanwhile, Persaud was expected to return to the United States on June 22, in order to attend the wedding of his daughter on July 4.
However, his wife and his children are expected here shortly.
Parbatie leaves to mourn her parents, including her father Narinesammy, three sisters and her sons.
The suspect, Ian Boodhoo, is expected to appear before the Magistrate Court on Friday.

By Jeune Vankeric