A 42-year-old Berbice man was on Tuesday slapped with a murder charge and appeared before Magistrate Renita Singh.
Bhola Jaipersaud was charged for killing his neighbour, Rameshwar Sydney, on July 8, 2022, at Bush Lot village, Corentyne, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Jaipersaud was remanded to prison and the case will continue on August 11.
It is alleged that Jaipersaud stabbed Sydney to death.
Dead: Rameshwar Sydney
Reports are that Sydney returned home from his farm and was having lunch when the neighbour went over and asked the farmer to go over by him to “gyaff” [have a conversation] and he went.
An eyewitness claimed that in a matter of minutes, Sydney ran out of the neighbour’s yard with a knife stuck in his neck. A security guard from the Bush Lot Secondary School, who was passing, saw Sydney collapse to the ground with blood pouring out of the wound.
The injured man’s wife was contacted and he was subsequently taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to the dead man’s brother – Ganish Sidney – Rameshwar had just consumed lunch which their mother had prepared when his friend came and called him to have a drink.
“As usual, when he want to drink he does come and call me brother; not he alone, other body and thing. So me brother decide to go with he. When he go [that] side me neighbour say he see me brother push the door and run out as de blood spilling from his neck like if a pipe running and he start to holla.”
According to the older Sidney, when he arrived at the scene his brother was lying on the ground panting for breath.
He said his neighbour was very aggressive earlier in the day.
According to the 47-year-old Sidney, the suspect and his brother were conversing prior to the incident and he heard both of them laughing.
He explained that he was eating at the time of the stabbing.
“We call the doctor and the doctor call the Police and tell we to put a cloth in the hole to stop the bleeding. Is just one stab but he pull the knife and make a big cut,” he explained.
Sydney was a father of five children.
