CRIMINAL Investigations Department police are now narrowing their search area for the men who robbed and murdered 26-year-old Golden Grove tailor, Bharrat Pitamber, on Tuesday evening while he was heading home.
Pitamber, of 1401 Section ‘C’, Block ‘Y’, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, was stabbed and slashed about his hands while fending off two bandits. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Hospital.
Yesterday, the Guyana Chronicle was informed that sometime last week, a pensioner, who is into cattle rearing, had his pedal cycle stolen while he was supervising his cows in the Diamond ‘backdam’area.
The man, who is said to be 75-years-old, however, did not report the cycle as missing.
Meanwhile, investigators are now working on the theory that the two persons who robbed and murdered Pitamber, the father of a six-month-old baby, are the same persons who stole the cycle from the pensioner in the ‘backdam’.
They are also considering that it was the same cycle that they used to follow Pitamber and rob him. It is also being suggested that the men would usually pounce oupn unsuspecting persons entering and leaving the community.
Police sources told this publication also that it is believed that the men who committed the robbery-murder are persons from the area, who are familiar with the pensioner and the tailor as well as the community.
Speaking with this publication at the Diamond Hospital Tuesday evening, the deceased’s wife Menedai Persaud said that she was at home when she got the news. She said that her husband who she only married a year and a half ago telephoned her to say that he was selling his bird for $45.000 and that he would be purchase another one for $15,000 less.
At the time he met his demise he had already sold the bird but was not yet able to buy the other bird, the woman related. She said that after he called her to tell her that he was coming home she waited a while for him but did not see him. The woman said that she then began calling his cell phone and it rank out before going to voice mail.
Shortly after two of the man’s friends came to her house in a taxi and informed her that there was a party of police at the location next to where her husband works and she joined them in the car and went to the location. There she was told that the man was robbed and stabbed and she rushed on to the hospital
Persaud related that when she arrived she entered the accident and emergency room and was confronted with the news that the man had passed away due to the wounds he suffered when the robbers attacked him.
Written By Leroy Smith