THIRTY-eight- year- old Sham Harrinauth of 41 East Ruimveldt Saturday afternoon hanged himself at the East Ruimveldt Outpost hours after he was locked up for abusing his teenaged daughter and son. According to information reaching the Guyana Chronicle, the man’s two children Vikesh Harrinauth, 14, and Shavanie Harrinauth, 18, also of the same address went to the police station together to report that the man was chasing them with a cutlass Saturday morning.
The police subsequently visited the scene and the man was spotted, confronted and arrested before being taken to the police station.
The man later in the afternoon, while still in the lockups, asked the police constable on duty to telephone his daughter to make arrangements for them to bring meals for him. The police facilitated his request. That was approximately 16.12 hrs.
The man, after requesting water from the police just after 1700 hrs, was given same and his meals arrived shortly after. It was when the ranks attempted to inform the man that his food had arrived that they observed him hanging in his cell by his vest from one of the metal bars in the lockups.
The now dead man was previously charged for abusing his children and wife and that forced his wife to walk away from the relationship, leaving him and the children.
The man according to information received, was also placed on a bond to keep to keep the peace but on Saturday clearly violated that court order.
Commander Clifton Hicken who was on the scene told the Guyana Chronicle that the police regretted the suicide in the lockups.
He said the Guyana Police Force has a zero tolerance approach when it comes to dealing with matters of and reports of domestic violence, since failure to take the appropriate action could lead to the death or serious injury of a person or persons.