Port Mourant market robbery: Poultry vendor remanded for killing teen bandit

A poultry vendor residing at Portuguese Quarter in Corentyne Berbice, was remanded to prison on Monday on a murder charge.
Seeindra Marimutoo was charged for the murder of 18-year-old Parmand Pertab, who was involved in a robbery at the Port Mourant Market.
The 43-year-old man appeared before Magistrate Tuanna Hardy at the Whim Magistrate’s Court. It was revealed in court that the fatal incident transpired on October 26.

During the court proceedings, Attorney-at-Law Latchmie Rahamat, representing the accused, expressed intent to correspond with the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in a formal request for a review of the charge. The defence attorney argued that self-defence, including the defence of one’s property with legal force, if necessary, constitutes a complete defence in such cases.
Further, Rahamat asserted that other individuals, armed with cutlasses, purportedly played a role in the events leading to the injuries sustained.
Marimutoo, who is a relative of the dead man, was nonetheless remanded to prison and the case will call again on November 29.
On Saturday last, Marimutoo’s family and supporters staged a demonstrative protest at the Port Mourant Market calling for his release.
On October 26, two teenagers, one armed with a cutlass and the other with a firearm attempted to rob a Corentyne jeweller who was plying his trade at the Port Mourant Market.
Police said one of the perpetrators was 18-year-old Parmand Pertab called “Mikey” of Hampshire Village, Corentyne.
He was attacked by a group of cutlass-wielding men and was eventually picked up and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he subsequently passed away.
An autopsy performed on the body by Government Phonologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan gave the cause of death as shock and hemorrhage due to multiple incised wounds.