Suspect in murder of cousin issues death threats to family in phone call from Suriname

Over two weeks after Mon Repos carpenter Ganesh Ramlakhan was allegedly stabbed to death by his cousin, the police are yet to find the perpetrator, who has contacted the family from Suriname to make death threats.

Ramlakhan, 34, a carpenter of Lot 127 Mon Repos Pasture, was fatally stabbed during an altercation with his cousin, Vishal Baldeo, called “Vicky” and “Leader,” on New Year’s Day.

A relative, who asked not to be named, yesterday said that while Baldeo has managed to elude the police since the murder, he called Bibi Ameena Hack, a cousin-in-law of the dead man and a witness to the murder, a few days ago from a number in Suriname.

He reportedly threatened her, saying that he will be returning to kill three more relatives, including her because she had provided the media with information about him.

“He call couple days gone back on a 597 number and seh that he coming for three more a we. So, I tek the phone and tell he that he must turn into the police station because he wanted and he hang up and we neva hear back from he,” the relative said.

The relative also said that they received information from persons that Baldeo was recently seen working on a fishing boat in Suriname. As a result, the woman said they passed on this information and the telephone number from which the man called on to the police in hopes that he will soon be captured.

Hack had related to Stabroek News that she and Ramlakhan were talking when Baldeo pulled up in front of the house in a car. She said he walked towards Ramlakhan and whispered something in his ear. The man responded, “What the [expletive] wrong with yuh boy?”

She had said the suspect then hit Ramlakhan at the back of his neck and ran into the house, where he armed himself with two knives. “I try to hold he back and ask he where he going with them and he push me down and run outside to Ganesh,” Hack said.

She added that a scuffle ensued between the two men and Baldeo dealt Ramlakhan a stab in the region of his heart. As the wounded Ramlakhan attempted to flee, the suspect pushed him to the ground and dealt him two more stabs in his abdomen and back. Reports had also revealed that the suspect also dealt Ramlakhan’s father some chops about his body when he tried to intervene.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Ramlakhan remains revealed that he died as result of a single stab wound to the heart. Almost one year after Richard Remington was murdered, two of the five men accused of killing him were charged and remanded to prison during last week.

Twenty-three-year-old Winston Hinds, called “Town Man,” of Lot 28 Blueberry Hill, Wismar, Linden, and Owen Belfield, 27, of Lot 59 Victory Valley, Linden were not required to plead to the charge when they appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Linden Magistrate’s Court.

The charge stated that between February 9 and February 12, 2015, at Cholmondeley Hill, Wismar, the duo murdered Remington, 43, of Christianburg, Wismar, Linden.

Commander of ‘E’ Division Superintendent Calvin Brutus told Stabroek News yesterday that police are on the hunt for the three other suspects.

The decomposing remains of Remington were found in a clump of bushes along a track in the vicinity of Matthews Lane in the Christianburg/Cholmondeley Hill area on February 12, last year. He had been shot three times, including once to the head.

His relatives had recalled that he had left his home three days before his body was discovered and opined that he might have been lured into the bushy spot by someone he knew.

A relative had previously told this newspaper that inquiries of persons living nearby revealed that on the night of February 9 three gunshots were heard followed by sounds of someone running.

Hinds was previously charged with five counts of armed robbery.