“Chucky” confesses to killing 76-year-old pensioner

Twenty-seven-year-old Godfrey Gill, also called ‘Chucky’, has confessed to the brutal killing of 76-year-old David Ramkissoon, whose body was found with his throat slit in his home at Lot 61 Better Hope South, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Gill, of Prince William Street, Plaisance, ECD, appeared on Friday before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the Demerara High Court and pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.

Murdered: David Ramkissoon

The Police have said that, on August 21, 2016, Gill unlawfully killed Ramkissoon.
Gill was represented by Attorney-at-Law Dexter Smartt, while the State was represented by Prosecutor Caressa Henry.
Justice Morris-Ramlall has set March 24, 2022 for sentencing.
It was reported that following the discovery of the pensioner’s dead body, footprints were seen in the mud at the back of his yard, leading to an alleyway. Along with the footprints, drops of blood were spotted, and they led to a shack located a short distance from the slain man’s house.

Confessed killer Godfrey Gill, also called “Chucky”

One month after this incident, Gill and Sherwin Clarke were arrested in Plaisance, ECD. The two men have confessed to the murder, claiming that the crime was committed during a robbery. They have insisted that their intention was not to kill the elderly man, but that became their only alternative.
The man’s dead body was found by his son on the evening of August 21, 2016 after he returned home from an outing with his family. When he arrived home, the house was reportedly in darkness, causing the young man to think that his father had dropped to sleep and forgotten to turn on the lights.
He went to the upper flat and switched on the light, and checked his father’s room, but found it ransacked. He immediately called out to his father, but there was no response. He continued to check the other bedrooms, but they were also ransacked, and it was then he realised that something was very wrong.
He raised an alarm and rushed to the lower flat, where he saw his father’s body facing the wall in a sitting position in a pool of blood.
Initial investigations revealed that a portion of the fence was cut open and several torn white envelopes were found in the freezing compartment of the refrigerator. It was later discovered that perpetrators of the crime had carted off close to $6 million belonging to Ramkissoon.