Police are investigating the murder of a Corentyne, Berbice fisherman who died hours after being stabbed at a betting shop.
Dead: John Alexander Yap
Dead is John Alexander Yap of Kilcoy Village, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Reports are that Yap and his wife left home on Friday evening and went to a Superbet outlet at Kilcoy Village. Whilst there, the 21-year-old suspect and Yap had an argument which led to the father of two being stabbed to his chest. Yap was picked up and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was admitted and subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The dead man’s wife, Mineisha Chandralall called “Anjali”, recalled that two weeks ago, the suspect and her husband had an argument over the suspect’s girlfriend plaiting Yap’s hair.
The girlfriend is Yap’s Rakhi sister (Raksha Bandhan also called Rakhi, is the Hindu festival that celebrates brotherhood and love where a female ties a bracelet to male’s wrist to honour the relationship between brother and sister.)
According to Chandralall, as she rushed to her husband, she encountered the suspect.
“I ask him what you do that for boy, and he say ‘it get more to do. It not done yet’,” the grieving woman related.
She said at the time the suspect had a black knife in his hand and what appeared to be blood on his body.
The mother of two recounted that she visited the New Amsterdam Hospital at about 06:00h on Tuesday where doctors informed her that her husband was taken to the operating theatre but succumbed to his injuries.
This newspaper was told that two weeks ago, during a wake for Chandralall’s mother, the two also had an altercation which resulted in Yap being stabbed to the throat.
That incident stemmed from the suspect’s girlfriend plaiting Yap’s hair.
According to Chandralall, the suspect complained to her that her husband was friendly with his girlfriend. Meanwhile, the police said checks were made for the suspect at his home but he was not located. The suspect lives in the same street as Yap.
The couple has two children – aged two and five. (G4)
