A carpenter was on Friday slapped with a murder charge over the death of Corentyne supermarket owner, Akbhar Sain, who was killed during the course of a robbery.
Satish Ramrish, a 36-year-old carpenter, of Hampshire, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate Court before Magistrate Renita Singh on Friday charged with the murder of 59-year-old Akbhar Sain of Williamsburg, Corentyne.
It is alleged that between October 17, and October 18, he murdered the businessman during the act of a robbery. Sain was allegedly beaten to death at his business place, a supermarket, situated at the same location where he had resided.
The accused was not required to plead to the indictable charge.
Ramrish told the court that his six children needed food, so he decided to commit the robbery but expressed that he never expected it to turn out that way.
The accused who appeared in court with bandages around his head and right forearm, told the court that he sustained the injury to his head when he was hit by Sain.
Carpenter charged for killing Berbice businessman
“I beg you for one more chance to provide for my children,” he said as he clasped his hands and went down on his knees in the docks begging.
“I did not expect that to happen,” he continued.
He was remanded to prison and the case was transferred to the Albion Magistrate’s Court. Another hearing will be held on November 7.
Cerebral hemorrhage
Meanwhile, a post-mortem performed on the body of Sain on Thursday by Government Pathologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan gave the cause of death as shock with cerebral hemorrhage due to multiple fractures to the skull and blunt trauma to the head.
Reports are that the lone bandit forced his way into the supermarket in the wee hours of Wednesday, and killed the businessman during a confrontation.
According to the police, after receiving a report of an alleged breakage at a business place in Williamsburg at around 02:00h on Wednesday, ranks went to the area and observed a body lying in the yard.
Regional Commander Senior Superintendent Shivpersaud Bacchus had said the police immediately surrounded the building.
While searching the building, the ranks found a man hiding behind a washing machine. The man reportedly challenged the police and was shot in the right arm. He was arrested, and a search carried out on his person found several wads of cash in his possession.
According to the Commander, Ramrish claimed he had confronted the owner of the supermarket and lashed him to the head and other parts of his body with a piece of wood he was carrying. The commander said Ramrish claimed that the businessman had also lashed him with a piece of iron.
The commander said he told police that after gaining entry into the building, he went to the area where the money was kept and removed the cash.
Wrong
Meanwhile, the wife of the accused, Bibi Shabina Azad said the couple had been married for 14 years and no one expected her husband to do what he did.
“He wrong to do that, he have no right to do that. He wrong to do that. He never do nothing like that before. Me still can’t explain nothing because we nah short fuh anything. He is a hardworking man; working six days a week. If he don’t feel good one day me don’t force he to go to work. He get a slasher and he dose do he own work too…The whole family never expect this from he,” the woman said in an invited comment after the court proceedings.
Azad, who was the only family member of the accused who attended court on Friday told this publication that Ramrish did not work on Monday and Tuesday. She said she left him lying in a hammock under the house on Tuesday evening and on Wednesday morning she discovered that he was not at home. (G4)
