| – Police still to release photo of killer to mediaPolice have detained a Montrose, East Coast Demerara resident in connection with last Saturday’s brutal murder of 77-year-old Carmen Ganesh, as they follow leads that suggest that the elderly pensioner was the victim of a revenge killing.Sources said that the detained resident is a businessman who lost out in court to Mrs. Ganesh in a bitter property dispute a few years ago.Carmen GaneshBut police are yet to apprehend the young man who kicked, stomped and choked the old woman after striking her on the head with a lug spanner. The gruesome attack was recorded in its entirety on a surveillance camera and the killer’s face is clearly visible.Police had promised to release photos of the killer to the media since Saturday, but up to yesterday this had not been done.Sources who have viewed the footage of Mrs. Ganesh’s murder point to the fact that the killer, who had sneaked into the house while Mrs. Ganesh was performing her religious rites outside, had ample time to make off with his victim’s valuables.Instead, he remained inside, and is seen in the footage searching the house and even sifting through what appear to be documents. He is reportedly even seen making a phone call.The brutality of the attack, including his repeated kicking of the helpless woman, seemed to suggest that he deliberately wanted to inflict pain on his victim.According to sources who saw the video footage, the killer is in his twenties and wore a pair of camouflage three-quarter pants.He made off with the slain woman’s earrings, a gold ring and her pension, which she had collected from the Post Office on Friday.Ganesh, who lived alone, was found dead in her home by her son and daughter-in law, who went to check on her after she failed to respond to neighbours’ calls.A surveillance camera on the premises recorded the gruesome attack from start to finish.It is believed that the killer broke into a car in the yard some time Friday night. Footage from the camera showed the killer peering out of the vehicle around 05.40 hrs.It was shortly after this time that Mrs. Ganesh came out of her house to pick flowers and perform her religious rites in her front yard. While she was doing this, the intruder sneaked into the house through the back door and hid next to the refrigerator.When Mrs. Ganesh eventually entered her house, the intruder clubbed her on the head with a tyre wrench. When she collapsed,Cheap Jerseys Free, he dragged her into a corner and wrapped a hand-towel around her neck. After that, he began to kick and stomp the old woman until she lay motionless.With Ganesh’s corpse lying nearby,Cheap Jerseys From China, the killer then calmly opened her fridge and drank a can of orange juice.Eventually, the killer exited Mrs. Ganesh’s back door, jumped the fence,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, crossed the road then boarded a bus that was heading in the direction of Georgetown.However, no relative or villager could positively identify him.Kaieteur News was told that Ganesh was living at the Lot 121 Montrose Public Road property for several years,NFL Jerseys Outlet, taking care of it for some relatives who live overseas.She was last seen by neighbours picking flowers early Saturday morning. Her son,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, who lived close-by, had also called out to her while he was leaving for work.“He asked her if she want bread and she tell he bring it when he coming back,” her daughter-in-law, Natasha, told this newspaper.But it must have been a few minutes later that the elderly woman lost her life.According to Natasha, it was routine for the neighbour’s children to call out to Ganesh every morning when they awake, and yesterday was no different, except that the elderly woman did not respond to their calls.The neighbour became suspicious and contacted Ganesh’s daughter for her to come and check on her mother.The daughter made contact with her brother, who had earlier greeted his mother,Jerseys From China, and together they went to the house to see what was happening.When they arrived, their suspicions were immediately aroused when they observed that the gate was padlocked. They too called out for Ganesh and got no answer.The woman’s children proceeded to the back of the yard where they found her backdoor ajar.They ventured into the bottom flat of the house and found the elderly woman sprawled on the floor of the kitchen with blood oozing from a wound in her head and a piece of cloth tightly tied around her neck. |
