By Jeune Bailey Van Keric

POLICE Constable Shamkumar Persaud, 19, of 12 Chapel Street, New Amsterdam, was discovered suspended and motionless on the rafter in his bedroom on Sunday.He was expected to report for duty at the Blairmont Police Station a few hours before the discovery was made.

Persaud recently graduated from the Felix Austin Police Training School.

His mother Jasmattie Dhanraj, a nurse at the New Amsterdam Hospital, had returned home after the morning shift when she made the gruesome discovery.

The 48-year-old woman had reported that her son left home Saturday night and did not return when she retired to bed.
However, when she awoke, his bedroom door was closed and she did not go in. The mother reportedly left for work just before 07:00hrs on Sunday.
On her return home at 15:30hrs, she noticed that the top half of the backdoor was opened and the toilet was in an untidy state.
As a result, she called her son, but got no reply. However, on checking in his room, she saw him hanging from the roof.
An alarm was raised and a neighbor, Davidson Araujo, rushed over to the house and assisted in getting the man down, but he was already dead.
A report was made at the Central Police Station and an investigation has been launched into the incident.
In the meantime, it is alleged that the policeman’s phone which was charging at the time he was discovered was nowhere to be seen.
The body of the cop is at the New Amsterdam Hospital awaiting a post-mortem.