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Friday, July 11, 2025

Ex-con head severed, placed on table at rumshop

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La Ro­maine res­i­dents were paral­ysed with hor­ror yes­ter­day when they found the de­cap­i­tat­ed head of a 33-year-old ex-con­vict which was placed on dis­play out­side a bar.It was on­ly last Fri­day that Learie Ce­bal­lo, of Co­conut Dri­ve, San Fer­nan­do, was re­leased from prison, but less than a week lat­er, his man­gled and swollen head was found on a ta­ble out­side Step­perz Restau­rant and Bar at Ram­bert Vil­lage.

Four hours lat­er, a team of po­lice led by In­sp Matthew Noel and ASP Yus­suf Gaf­far found the rest of his body sev­er­al me­tres off the Her­mitage Vil­lage agri­cul­tur­al road, which has be­come a mur­der dump site over the past five years.Traf­fic and passers-by piled up along the road with chil­dren and adults gasp­ing at the gory sight of the head, which po­lice be­lieve was put there be­tween mid­night and 5 am yes­ter­day.

Re­ports stat­ed that around 6 am, a dou­bles ven­dor known on­ly as Ben, went to set up for his morn­ing sales on the same ta­ble where he dis­cov­ered the head.The trau­ma­tised Ben, who lives op­po­site, said when he took his con­tain­ers across, he ini­tial­ly thought the ob­ject on the ta­ble was a black plas­tic bag.How­ev­er, he soon re­alised it was a head and ran back home to call the bar's own­er Ve­shal Sie­u­nar­ine.

"It's the first time I saw some­thing like that. That sight both­ered me so much, look, now I can't even work. I don't even feel I can go back there and sell any­thing af­ter see­ing that," Ben said.Sie­u­nar­ine said he closed up around 10.30 pm on Wednes­day and there were no in­ci­dents at the bar, nor did he see any­thing on his pa­tio ta­ble.He said the vil­lage was usu­al­ly qui­et.Res­i­dents of near­by Pond Street, how­ev­er, said Ce­bal­lo's death was no shock to them as he had been in­volved in rob­beries and drugs since he was a teenag­er.They called for a greater po­lice pres­ence in the area as rob­beries and shoot­ings have es­ca­lat­ed.


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