Two weeks after the gruesome murder of 76-year-old Ramkissoon David, also called “Dilip” of Lot 61 Better Hope South, the Police are still to make an arrest.
Acting Crime Chief Hugh Jessemy, when contacted, told Guyana Times that the Police were conducting further investigations into the murder and have questioned several persons, including the son of the now dead man.
Detectives have established robbery was the motive for the murder after it was discovered that almost $6 million belonging to David was missing. The monies, according to well-placed sources, were kept in a secret place known only to the now dead man and a close relative.
Murdered, Ramkissoon David
However, that relative has denied having any involvement in the man’s murder. The Police are looking for new leads that can direct them to the perpetrators.
The pensioner was found with his throat slit in the lower flat of his two-storey home. At the time of the discovery, he was sitting in an upright position facing the wall.
The bedrooms in the upper flat of the house were ransacked. Family members subsequently found several envelopes torn and placed in the freezing compartment of a refrigerator. The elderly man, who was last seen alive at 13:30h at a nearby shop, was left at home alone by his relatives who went to spend the day at a creek on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.
It was after they returned home and found the house in darkness, they suspected something was amiss. As they turned on the electricity, they realised that the bedrooms in the upper flat were ransacked and when they ventured into the lower flat, they stumbled upon the elderly man’s body.
They later noticed a hole in the back fence which suggested that the perpetrators gained entry to the premises via that route.
