Shane Su­perville 

A 33-year-old pris­on­er who was on re­mand for mur­der took his own life in a cell at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said Dhan­raj Seuku­mar alias "Lallee" was in a cell at the T West Di­vi­sion of the prison at around 3.55 pm as prison of­fi­cers be­gan the process of "lock­ing down" the fa­cil­i­ties for the evening.

One in­mate alert­ed a prison of­fi­cer and up­on check­ing the cell, the guard found Seuku­mar un­re­spon­sive.

Oth­er prison of­fi­cers were called in to­geth­er with Arou­ca Po­lice and a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer who de­clared Seuku­mar dead.

Po­lice from the Spe­cial Ev­i­dence Re­cov­ery Unit (SERU) al­so vis­it­ed the scene and seized sev­er­al items be­lieved to have been used by Seuku­mar in his sui­cide. 

Of­fi­cers of the Arou­ca CID are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries. 

Seuku­mar, of Isth­mus Road, Point Ga­le­o­ta, Ma­yaro, was one of two men charged with the mur­der of Naresh Suck­ram in April 2021.