Cattle farmer admits to killing, burning worker’s body

…son, worker freed

A Corentyne cattle farmer will know his fate on May 4, when he goes before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall for sentencing after he admitted to killing a worker in 2017.
On Monday, 47-year-old Bharrat Ramsaywack, called “Bobby”, a cattle farmer of Number 55 Village, Corentyne, pleaded guilty to killing a 21-year-old block maker back in 2017.
The farmer was on trial for the October 2017 murder of Mahendra Ghanie, called “Sanjay”, whose burnt remains were found amid burning debris near Ramsaywack’s yard on October 6, 2017.
Ramsaywack along with his son Prem Ramsaywack, who was 16 years old at the time of the murder, and Mohanlall Suesankar, another employee, were indicted in December 2018, for the murder of Ghanie with the latter two being accessories to the crime.

During the trial in the High Court, Ramsaywack indicated that he wanted to change his plea. After he was allowed to do so, Justice Morris-Ramlall ordered a probation report.
Meanwhile, when the trial continued on Wednesday, Attorney-at-Law Mursaline Bacchus, who was representing the younger Ramsaywack, and Attorney-at-Law Arud Gossai, who was representing Suesankar, made a no-case submission which was upheld by the court. This led to the two other accused walking free.
The State’s case was presented by Attorney-at-Law Muntaz Ali.
The bones of 21-year-old Ghanie were found in a shallow grave with burning coconut shells next to a cemetery at Number 55 Village, close to Ramsaywack’s fence.
It had been reported that the trio offered the Police a confession statement stating that Ghanie was struck on his head with a piece of wood rendering him unconscious. They then reportedly dragged him and dumped him into the shallow grave. Ghanie was then set afire.
The men after checking and finding that the body was not destroyed, burnt it again in another shallow grave.
They had earlier accused Ghanie of stealing a goat. (G4)