CATTLE farmer, Sohan Ramdial, whose body was discovered on Monday in a shallow grave in Belle West on the West Bank Demerara, died from multiple stab wounds to his chest, according to an autopsy performed on Wednesday.

The autopsy was performed by government pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh, who gave the cause of death as “perforation of the lungs and heart due to multiple penetrating wounds”. The wounds are believed to have been caused by more than one weapon.

Essequibo Island-West Demerara (Region Three) Regional Crime Chief, Troy Whittaker, said there are no suspects as yet in the case but he remains optimistic. “We’re still active in our investigation, as I speak now the team is still on the ground checking out some new leads but I am almost confident that we will get a breakthrough,” Whittaker said.

The body of the sixty-seven-year-old man was discovered in the shallow grave after his family had mobilised a search party for him on Monday morning since he did not return home as expected on Sunday evening. Ramdial was last seen on Sunday morning when he left his Lot 69 Claybrick Road, Canal No. 2, home to tend to his cattle in the backdam.

The family was unsure of why anyone would have wanted to murder the farmer, while neighbours were left in disbelief at the discovery in their quiet farming community. “I can’t say if he had problems with anybody, but normally he doesn’t trouble anybody; he comes, looks his cow, and goes home. He doesn’t have problems but apparently somebody and he got problem; but I don’t know, I can’t say,” his daughter, Padmini Ramdial, had said.
Ramdial leaves to mourn his wife Lynette John, his three children and four grandchildren