| Recently, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been making headlines having solved a number of cold cases, but perhaps the most impacting of them all, was the murder of David Ramcharran, a little over 17 years ago at Seven Miles, Mahdia.Crime ChiefWendell BlanhumThirty-eight year-old miner, Philbert Edwards confessed to murdering Ramcharran on May 03,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, 1999 reportedly over cigarettes.During a press conference yesterday, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that it was the oldest cold case the Force has ever solved.“We had to do a lot of digging to get the file, post mortem report and so on, and this was the result of citizens’ cooperation with the police,” Blanhum said.Kaieteur News understands that the suspect was arrested for stabbing his brother and it was during interrogation related to that matter, and after receiving intelligence, that the suspect confessed to the murder.At the press conference, the Crime Chief reflected on the Force’s recent successes in this regard.He emphasized that there has been “a 70 percent clear-up at the end of May, last, relating to murder—this is the highest clear up rate in 10 years”.However, the figure has fallen a bit to 63 percent as of October 31, but the Crime Chief said that they are hoping to take the figure up to 70 percent or even higher before the year comes to an end.Some of the cases Blanhum spoke about were Babita Sarjou, whose body was found buried in her estranged husband’s backyard, six years after she went missing; Remigrant and Professor Pairadeau Mars, who was found murdered in his house; the Black Bush Polder triple-murder and the murder of a visiting British teen.Meanwhile, this newspaper was told that over the last five years, disorderly and domestic murders have continued to pose a problem. For this year, these two types of murders accounted for half of all the murders in the country.To avoid this, the Force is urging members of the community to be more vigilant and report street and rum shop brawls along with drug yard fights and cases of domestic abuse before they escalate and result in death—instead of videoing and posting it on social media.As it relates to crime in the various divisions, ‘C’ Division took the biggest chunk of the pie—23 percent, according to Blanhum with ‘B’ and ‘A’ following.“In ‘A’ Division, there were six executions, six robberies and six disorderly murders. In ‘C’ there was two executions, two robberies, eight domestic and nine disorderly murders. ‘F’ Division recorded 13 disorderly murders.”The Crime Chief said that the focus of the Force is to disarm the criminal population of illegal firearms; as a result, 83 guns were seized as compared to 98 the previous year.Also, the country has recorded the lowest piracy attacks in this year with one case reported thus far as compared to 22 in 2012. |
