| A man who police have arrested as a suspect in the murder of 77-year-old Carmen Ganesh may not be the persons caught on camera committing the act after all.This is despite police receiving several calls from persons claiming it was him, after they would have seen the image in sections of the media earlier this week.“The police got a lot of calls that he was the man in the video, that is why they arrested him,” a police official told this newspaper.With the image not being clear enough, police sources were never too sure that it matched the man they had picked up in East Ruimveldt on Tuesday.After reviewing the footage several times, Police sources are now confirming that they are not 100 percent sure that the 24-year-old man in custody is the man in the video. The detained individual is maintaining that it is not him in the video and investigators will have to rely on scientific evidence such as DNA and fingerprints to be absolutely sure.They have been able though to recover a few items from the suspect’s home which have aroused some suspicion.The man in custody was charged in 2009 for stabbing another man to death. He was 17 at the time.He spent five years in prison awaiting trial, but a judge quashed the case against him in 2013.In the meantime police have indicated that they are now looking for another man who also fits the description of the person seen battering the elderly woman to death and rummaging through her house.Additionally they have re-interviewed some of the dead woman’s close family members as they try to tackle every available angle in their investigations.“We are exploring all angles. We are not ruling out anything,” Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told Kaieteur News last evening.Close family members of the murdered woman are almost convinced that her killer was contracted to take her life.Judging from the killer’s calm actions which were captured on surveillance cameras in and around the Montrose, East Coast Demerara house, family members believe that the man was not there just to rob the elderly woman but was calculating enough to ensure that she suffered severely before he finally ensured she was dead.Family members are surprised that the killer, who had ample time to pack away loot, left behind items of significant value which were bound to attract the ordinary break and enter criminal.“First, he was in the car that had an expensive tape deck, but he left that. In the house they had flat screen TV and laptop,Cheap Jerseys, he left that too,” a relative observed.However, they could not say for sure who would want her dead.On the day of the murder, Police had detained a Montrose businessman with whom the elderly woman and her family had a dispute a few years ago. But the man was released on Tuesday after detectives could not find anything to link him to the murder.The pensioner’s battered body was found in her home last Saturday by relatives who went to check on her, after she failed to answer her neighbours’ calls.A post mortem revealed that she had died from blows to the head. The entire attack was recorded on surveillance cameras on the property.Kaieteur News had obtained the graphic recording of a man calmly clubbing, throttling and then kicking and stomping Mrs. Ganesh. It also shows the killer searching the woman’s apartment and talking to his dying victim through the entire ordeal which lasted almost one hour.The suspect, a man of African ancestry, was wearing a pair of three-quarter camouflage pants and purple jersey, and what appears to be a pair of brown shoes.The recording shows the killer, who is eerily calm and unhurried, striking Mrs. Ganesh in the head when she attempts to enter a bottom-flat room at around 06:19 hrs. As she falls to the floor, he repeatedly kicks and stomps Mrs. Ganesh, and even clubs her with a spanner every time her legs move.He is also seen speaking to and gesticulating at his victim, who is lying on the floor, then repeatedly entering a bedroom, only to return to Mrs. Ganesh and again speaking to and gesticulating at her. He also goes to a table and sifts through documents and even opens some envelopes.Shortly after 07.14 hrs, the killer exits the house. He is seen wiping off his shoes, before scaling the woman’s front fence and heading across the Montrose Public Road to join a bus, which reportedly heads towards Georgetown. |
