– in second home invasion this year

FORMER planter at Uitvlugt Estate, West Coast Demerara, Jamaludin Sattar, 56, who was also an ex-soldier, was found murdered in his Stewartville home early yesterday morning.

His reputed wife, Genevieve Hartman, 62, a security guard attached to the Ministry of Agriculture at Den Amstel, said that she left home on Saturday at about 06:30hrs for work leaving her husband home alone.
She returned home at 07:00hrs on Sunday morning and opened the front door to the building via the lower flat and found her husband’s lifeless body near the stairway by the kitchen.
The grieving woman said that when she first returned home from work she called out to her spouse as usual but after getting no response she decided to open the padlock to the door. She related sadly that his face was covered and he was motionless while his head was bashed in and his jersey was covered in blood.
She then ran out of the house screaming and alerted neighbours.

Hartman explained that she was not sure what the killer(s) were after in the home but the entire house from the lower flat to the upper flat was ransacked, suggesting that they had spent a lot of time inside the building. She said too that when she entered the house she saw the back door ajar.
This is the second break and enter and robbery at the Lot 28 Middle Street, Stewartville residence this year. About two months ago the home was broken into and jewellery and money which they had stored in the building were stolen.
It is believed that the intruders gained entry to the upper flat of the house by using a wooden bench to scale the window on the eastern side and then they entered the upper flat of the house and burglarised the place of valuables.
Hartman said that her reputed husband was an ex-soldier and worked Monday to Friday and he was at home alone. She feels that her reputed husband was killed during the home invasion.
Sattar has a child from a previous relationship and leaves behind siblings and scores of relatives.
Relatives of the deceased said, yesterday, that they believe that several drug addicts (junkies) who roam the village committed the crime although neighbours in the populated street did not hear or see anything since they said it was raining heavily.
Police reported that at about 07:30hrs yesterday the body of Jamaludin Sattar was found in his home with suspected marks of violence to his head and the home was found ransacked.
The police are awaiting the results of the post-mortem examination as investigations continue.

(By Michel Outridge)