Lomattie Ramdat, the wife of slain fisherman Chetram Bharrat, told investigators that it was her lover, Errol Khan, who carried out the fatal attack on her husband last Friday at the couple’s Haslington, East Coast Demerara home.
The woman who initially stated that she and her now dead husband were attacked by two bandits on the day in question confessed on Tuesday evening that Khan entered the home and attacked her husband with a cutlass in the wee hours of Friday.
Ramdat reportedly told investigators that after she intervened, the man had threatened to kill her and her family thus she retreated, but was still chopped about her body. She added that after the attack, Khan left but not before again threatening to “wipe out” her family if she told the Police that he killed her husband.
Ramdat, a source told Guyana Times International, is in protective custody at the Georgetown Public Hospital and Police are presently analysing the fingerprints gathered at the scene to confirm it was indeed Khan who committed the heinous crime.
Police had already issued a wanted bulletin for Khan for questioning into the murder of Bharrat based on initial information gathered during the investigation.
Ramdat reportedly told the Police that Khan had threatened to poison her husband and children before, so out of fear, her children moved in with her sister at Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara.
She also confirmed that she and Khan lived together for about four months after her husband went to Suriname.
Her husband, she added, knew of the affair, but forgave her and reportedly asked her for reconciliation. In his attempt to salvage the marriage, Bharrat instructed Ramdat to stay at her sister’s home until his return.
Spurned
At that point, she reportedly broke all ties with Khan, but that did not go down well. Ever since, he has been attempting to contact her. The desperate man even visited the woman’s sister at Clonbrook and requested a meeting with her.
Ramdat’s brother-in-law, according to information received, intervened and warned Khan not to return to his home. A few weeks later, Bharrat returned from Suriname and they moved back to their home at Haslington.
However, Khan persisted in his attempts to contact the woman and requested to meet her, but was repeatedly rejected. On the morning of Friday, he reportedly entered the couple’s home via a window and attacked Bharrat who was sleeping on the bed.
Ramdat told investigators that she pleaded with the man to leave her husband alone, but he continued to throw chops indiscriminately, leaving her husband in an unconscious state.
Bharrat subsequently bled to death. A post-mortem performed on Bharrat proved that he died as a result of multiple chop wounds.
Ramdat remains a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing chop wounds to her head, arm, face and leg. The Police are yet to make an arrest.
