Security guard arrested for allegedly choking pensioner to death

A 48-year-old security officer, Ramjit Ranlall, has been arrested in connection with the death of his uncle, 77-year-old pensioner Pooshandeo Rambaran, in Goed Bananen Land, East Canje, Berbice, Thursday morning.

The suspect, reportedly from Adelphi Village, East Canje, was taken into custody when police found Rambaran’s lifeless body on the roadway.
According to the police, an anonymous caller reported that he saw a man choking another individual on the road. Officers promptly responded to the scene and found Rambaran lying motionless.
He was transported to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Ranlall was arrested at the scene and is currently assisting the police with their investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, the dead man’s wife, 68-year-old Latchmin Davi Rambaran, explained that the security guard is her nephew, and his wife works as a domestic on Thursdays at the Rambaran’s home.
According to the now widowed woman, her nephew had been accusing his wife of having an affair with another man, and would frequently come to her house on Thursdays when his wife is there, and verbally abuse his wife.
She noted that on Thursday her nephew apparently punctured his wife’s bicycle wheel, resulting in the tire becoming flat. The woman claimed that her nephew used that as an excuse to visit his uncle’s home on Thursday.
“He come and looking after the bicycle and cussing up…,” she recalled.
Her late husband reportedly scolded his nephew over his attitude.
According to her, her husband asked his nephew to leave and threatened to put a padlock on the gate.
She further related that on three occasions her husband went out to his nephew who was fixing the bicycle on the road in front of the gate.
“The third time when the man go out to him, he asked him what he getting on with, and with that he scramble my husband; and I ask him to stop his madness – he strong. He take his two hands and he squeeze my husband,” the grieving woman alleged.
She said after hearing no sounds for a while, she got out of the hammock to investigate noticed her husband lying motionless on the ground.
She added that together with a neighbour they tried to resuscitate him but he was unresponsive.
Her nephew then walked into the yard, and at the same time a police officer arrived.
Referring to her husband who was cooking for her at the time he met his demise, Rambaran said her late husband had been very supportive of her and had been assisting with all of the house chores as a result of her ailment.
“He do everything for me,” she explained.
The woman has been suffering with arthritis for the past six years and has been almost confined to a bed.
“Right now I don’t know where my head is from my foot because that was my hand and foot… He does come to my bed and bring my biscuit and tea and then carry back the plate, rub my foot with ointment,” she disclosed.
“He didn’t deserve that. Nobody he was bad to, nobody at all,” she sobbed.
Authorities are continuing their investigations.