–post-mortem shows wife died of heart attack

BOBBY Ramkarran of Lot 4, Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo, who on Tuesday last had been accused of beating to death his wife of 50 years, has been freed by the police after the post-mortem results into the death of the woman revealed that she died of heart failure caused by the blockage of an artery.

The 76-year-old husband had been detained as part of police investigations into the death of 71-year-old Sohodra Ramkarran after relatives and several neighbours had become suspicious that the woman had met her demise at his hands.

Liloutie Parsram, a grand-daughter who lives a short distance away from her grandparents’ home, said her grandfather had related that he had travelled to Georgetown on Monday to do some business, and upon his return home he had had an argument with his wife. Before Ramkarran’s arrival home, his wife had reportedly started to prepare dinner, but because of the argument, she had decided to imbibe alcohol instead.

The couple would sometimes imbibe alcohol together, and would often get into arguments; but according to the woman, her grandfather insisted that he had not consumed alcohol on Monday.

On Tuesday, her grandmother’s already stiff body was found in a locked bedroom in the bottom flat of the house.

“Grandfather claimed that after he quarrel on she, she went into the room in the bottom flat and she just lock sheself in there.”

Parsram said a male neighbour helped Ramkarran gain access to the bedroom by prising open a window. But when he entered the room, he discovered Sohodra Ramkarran’s lifeless body leaned against another window that was already opened.

The granddaughter explained that her grandfather was the one who then placed her grandmother in a lying position in the room, since he was reportedly claiming that she was not dead.