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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Sleeping couple hacked to death

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It might be a new year, but the on­slaught of mur­ders con­tin­ued on New Year's Day af­ter a Bor­de Narve, Princes Town, cou­ple was hacked to death at their home.Po­lice, how­ev­er, on­ly made the gory dis­cov­ery of the bod­ies of 50-year-old trades­man Omar­dath De­ok­ien­anan and his com­mon-law wife Sharon Ba­hadoor, 47, out­side their Ceme­tery Trace home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Shock and de­spair was etched on rel­a­tives' faces yes­ter­day as they called on the Gov­ern­ment to en­force cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment this year, in or­der to de­ter crim­i­nals.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors sus­pect that De­ok­ien­anan and Ba­hadoor were asleep in their one-room shack at the edge of the In­ver­ness Pub­lic Ceme­tery around 10 pm when two men armed with cut­lass­es en­tered. The men hog-tied the cou­ple, beat them, then hacked them to death be­fore dump­ing their bod­ies out­side their home. The at­tack­ers then made their get­away in Ba­hadoor's Nis­san B-14.Rel­a­tives check­ing on the cou­ple hours lat­er, found De­ok­ien­anan but could not find Ba­hadoor any­where.

It was not un­til po­lice, led by ASP Zamsheed Mo­hammed, In­sp Don Gajhadar and In­sp Sean Dhilpaul, combed the area sur­round­ing the ceme­tery yes­ter­day that Ba­hadoor's body was found.Speak­ing to the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, Ba­hadoor's nephew, Richard Seer­am, said vil­lagers on­ly re­alised some­thing was wrong when they saw his aunt's car crash in­to a Nis­san B13 while speed­ing along the Cipero Road.

"We were up the road by some of my fam­i­ly around 10 pm and when I reached home, my part­ner called me and told me my aunt's car crashed up the road," he said."He saw the ac­ci­dent and he said two fel­las jumped out from the car and ran. He thought it had to be some­body stole the car."I went across to their home and I saw the house open, the lights on and when I called, no­body an­swered. I told my broth­er that we should go in­to the house and when we reached the door, I saw a whole pool of blood in front."

Seer­am said they be­gan to pan­ic on see­ing the bloody mess in the house."I said some­thing was wrong and we walked around the house to see if they were beat­en and tied but we did not see any­body...I told my broth­er that all we could do was call the po­lice," he said."It was af­ter­wards, around 12 am, they found him at the side of his tank. They chopped him on his head and his two hands were tied to­geth­er.

"Lat­er on this morn­ing, they found my aunt's body in the bush­es near a downs tree. It was like she tried to run away but she col­lapsed and they chopped her right there."Though un­sure, po­lice sus­pect that rob­bery might be the mo­tive for the killing.Rel­a­tives, how­ev­er, be­lieve the killers came for blood.

"I don't feel it was the car they want­ed, those men came to kill them. At the end of the day, if they want­ed the car, they did not have to kill them. The way they chopped this man in his head, I be­lieve they ac­tu­al­ly came to kill them," Seer­am said.Ba­hadoor's cousin, Berna­dine Seer­am, said the cou­ple lived hum­ble lives and did not have any en­e­mies."They used to drink be­fore but they stopped that a year now. They even went to AA meet­ings. They don't re­al­ly med­dle with any­body," she said.

De­ok­ien­anan's sis­ter, In­dra Ram­jass, told the T&T Guardian that the cou­ple had an ar­gu­ment with neigh­bours re­cent­ly, but she was un­sure whether that caused the killings.For her 78-year-old moth­er, Dara­giah De­ok­ien­anan, the news was too much to bear as Omar­dath was the third of her chil­dren to die."One drown, one died from di­a­betes and now he come and get mur­dered," she said as she tried to fight her tears.

Po­lice are yet to ar­rest any sus­pects but have im­pound­ed Ba­hadoor's car at the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion for foren­sic test­ing.


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