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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Defence Force to dismiss officers on rape charge

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A sol­dier and a mem­ber of the Air Guard Unit, ac­cused of rap­ing a 14-year-old school­girl in Rio Claro, are to be dis­charged "dis­hon­ourably" from the T&T the De­fence Force. The an­nounce­ment was made in a state­ment on Mon­day night by the civ­il mil­i­tary af­fairs of­fi­cer of the De­fence Force Ma­jor Al Alexan­der.

Alexan­der said the or­der to dis­charge the ser­vice­men came from the Chief of De­fence Staff, Brig Gen Ken­rick Ma­haraj. "Ma­haraj was lu­cid in his in­struc­tions this af­ter­noon, stat­ing that they are to be dis­charged from the De­fence Force with im­me­di­ate ef­fect," Alexan­der said.

The two of­fi­cers, Kurt Bradley Sama­roo, 23, a sol­dier, Chase Kevin Ram­dath, 23, of the Air Guard and his broth­er Chris Brent Ram­dath, 21, a plumber, ap­peared in the Rio Claro Mag­is­trates Court yes­ter­day charged with rape, griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault and de­tain­ing a fe­male to have sex­u­al in­ter­course. They were re­fused bail.

They were ar­rest­ed on Sun­day af­ter the girl re­port­ed the in­ci­dent. Court pros­e­cu­tor Sgt Alex­is Gar­cia ob­ject­ed to bail, say­ing the ac­cused men were not traced. He al­so cit­ed the se­ri­ous­ness of the of­fence. The mag­is­trate de­nied them bail pend­ing a trace and ad­journed the mat­ter to to­mor­row.

Alexan­der's re­lease said the sol­dier was last as­signed to the De­fence Force Head­quar­ters in Ch­aguara­mas. Both of­fi­cers are said to be in their 20s and had less than two years' ser­vice. Alexan­der said the ac­cused ser­vice­men were to be dis­charged by or­der of the Chief of De­fence Staff un­der the pro­vi­sion of the De­fence Act Chap­ter 14:01 "Ser­vice no longer re­quired".

Alexan­der not­ed that af­ter ap­pear­ing in court the ac­cused of­fi­cers will be es­cort­ed to their homes by po­lice and army of­fi­cials. Their homes then will be searched, in their pres­ence, for all De­fence Force sup­plies and uni­forms is­sued to them dur­ing their tenure. ACP Wayne Dick and ASP Neville Sankar led the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the rape.


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