FOUR men were, on Thursday, remanded to prison for the murder of a 72-year-old pensioner, who was badly beaten during a recent invasion of his Strathspey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.

The men were not required to plead to the indictable charge when they appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court.

Those remanded are Mahendranauth Persaud, 22, a construction worker of Lot 38 Strathspey, ECD; Sankar Permaul, 25, a businessman of Lot 491 Block 8, Mon Repos, ECD; Navin Deochand, 24, a labourer of Lot 109 Pump Road, Strathspey, ECD and Kublall Persaud, 25, a businessman of Lot 104 Strathspey, ECD.

They were remanded to prison and the matter will be called again on March 16, 2020. It is alleged that on January 20, 2020, they murdered Ramsahoye Deochand.

He was beaten at home on Sunday night and succumbed to his injuries in the wee hours of Monday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Ramsahoye received injuries to the head and about the body; it is alleged that he was beaten with a mop stick and a music amplifier in the head.

The pensioner had suffered a stroke, leaving the entire right side of his body paralysed.
An autopsy conducted by State Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh, on Wednesday, gave the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head and multiple injuries.

The pensioner had lived in the community for over 20 years with his family and worked as a police constable at the La Bonne Intention Sugar Estate.