Venezuelan charged for beheading missing Berbice man

A Venezuelan national was on Monday remanded for allegedly beheading and dumping the body of a Corentyne labourer last week.

Simon Wills, 28, appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court and was not required to plea to the indictment.
The charge states that between November 25 and 30, 2023, at Fyrish Village, Corentyne, Berbice, he murdered Chetram Ramjattan called “Buck Crab”.
The foreigner was unrepresented when he appeared in court.
Police Prosecutor Vedesh Jattan told the court that the Police had not completed the case file and asked for a further three weeks to have that done.
As such, Wills was remanded and will have to return to court on December 27.
It had been reported that days after Ramjattan went missing, his headless body was discovered in a drain situated near a house which was occupied by several Venezuelan nationals.
Police later found the man’s head inside the house after one of the men confessed to committing the crime. The discovery was made on Thursday last.
The now dead man’s sister had told Guyana Times that she last saw her brother on Saturday, November 25, when he had visited her at her home. She explained that on that day, her brother had left her house to go visit their other sibling and was going to return, but he never did.
After the discovery of the body was made, she went to the mortuary, where she was told that the body had several stab wounds.
An autopsy performed on the body by Government Pathologist, Dr Vivakeanand Bridgemohan on Friday suggests that Ramjattan was killed before being beheaded. The autopsy report indicated that he died as a result of a fractured skull and blunt trauma to the head.
Ramjattan was a 43-year-old labourer who lived alone at Kilcoy Settlement, Corentyne, Berbice.