THE police in Berbice have arrested two persons in connection with the death of 26-year-old Levan Chanderpaul, whose body was found in the backlands of the village Wednesday evening. A post-mortem performed on Chanderpaul has indicated that he died as a result of haemorrhage and a fractured skull. According to reports, one of the suspects was having an affair with Chanderpaul while the other is reported to have threatened “to kill him” on numerous occasions, because of alleged shady deals.
Speaking with this publication, Seranie Chanderpaul, the mother of the dead man recalled last seeing him alive on Monday when he came home for dinner. “He come like around 7:30 eat and suh and then he tell me he gotta go out little and he was gonna come back.” He never returned. She explained, after he did not return home on Monday followed by Tuesday, she became worried and made a missing person report at the Number 51 Police Station. While she made her way home the mother said she stopped by the home of one of the suspects who cursed and chased her. “I pass by and he wife tell me lemme check at the woman he was having affair with backyard, when me go by she,[she] start cuss up so me just go home and then me husband was getting ready to go search for he again, same time two boy come and tell we they find a body in the backdam.”
Seranie Chanderpaul explained that her husband went and their worst fears were confirmed when the body of Chanderpaul was discovered face down, clad only in his briefs and bearing marks of violence on his face and head. His feet and hands were also bound. Police are continuing their investigation into the murder. Meanwhile, this is the second murder to hit the area within days: on Monday last, the body of 14-year-old Akeem Grimmond of Number 60 Village was discovered in a cemetery with several chops and stab wounds.