–cut woman’s neck with knife
Guyanese Munilall Sarjoo was last month slapped with a sentence of 30 months and a ten-year weapons ban when he appeared in the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Canada after being found guilty of aggravated assault and weapons possession.
According to court documents which this newspaper has seen, the 39-year-old illegal immigrant, who arrived in Canada in November 2004, had applied for refugee status which was denied. He subsequently exhausted all rights of appeal and a notice regarding deportation was sent to his mother’s address in Toronto in August last year.
With regard to his current conviction, Sarjoo, who is married to a legal permanent resident of the USA, had cut the neck of a woman who refused to have sex with him. According to the facts of the case, the complainant was walking along the street around 1.15 am on July 30, 2006 when Sarjoo drove up alongside her and propositioned her.
The woman refused and entered a nearby restaurant. However, when she emerged from the restaurant, Sarjoo was waiting in his car and he proceeded to follow her. After she continually refused him, Sarjoo stopped the car and chased the woman down the street. He caught up with her and held a knife to her throat, applying pressure. The woman screamed and Sarjoo ran away and left in his car.
Women in the area went to the complainant’s aid and called 911. The complainant gave a description of Sarjoo and his car to the police and he was arrested some minutes later. Police found a green knife in his pocket with blood on the blade. Sarjoo was charged with aggravated assault in this matter and subsequently pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison, but received a credit of pre-sentence custody of 12 months and will therefore serve 18 months.
The judge also told him that he would be subject to “a mandatory weapons prohibition order pursuant to Section 109(1) (a) of the Criminal Code. As this is your first conviction in Canada, that order will be for ten years.”
The judge also related that after Sarjoo pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault, he was formally found guilty of this charge on September 29, 2008. However, the sentencing hearing did not proceed as originally scheduled as Sarjoo did not attend court. A bench warrant was issued and once Sarjoo was arrested, there were various attendances and adjournments at Sarjoo’s request until the sentencing hearing finally began on April 3, 2009.
On September 29, 2008, the judge had ordered a pre-sentence probation report. However, the probation and parole officer could not find Sarjoo. It was not until late November, that the probation officer was informed by Canada Border Services and Toronto Police that Sarjoo was in the custody of the United States Border Service.
Two shirts and two pants
According to testimony given by a Border Patrol Agent with the US Department of Homeland Security, on October 25, 2008, the police in Clay Township in Michigan alerted border patrol that they had Sarjoo in custody and wanted an immigration check on him. Border patrol determined that Sarjoo was in the US illegally.
When questioned, Sarjoo claimed that he had been drinking with a friend called ‘Indian Joe’ at Walpole Island and that they crossed the St Claire River in a hunting boat with some friends, following which they drank all night at a bar at Harsen’s Island in the US until 6 am. However, Sarjoo could not name the bar.
Further, the agent testified that when he was arrested, Sarjoo was wearing two shirts and two pairs of pants one over the other and that he had US$900 and Cdn$1,155. According to the agent, in all of the cases of persons, who have illegally entered the United States, that he has dealt with in his two years on the job, those persons have been found to be wearing two layers of clothing and in possession of large quantities of cash. However, he also admitted that it was cold in October and therefore it was not unusual for persons in that area to be wearing two layers of clothing.
Probation report
According to the pre-sentence probation report, which was submitted in February this year, Sarjoo was born in Guyana in 1970. He attended school up Grade Five (Primary Three), leaving when his father died to work to help with the family’s income. Sarjoo told the probation officer that he does not intend to upgrade his education and described himself as functionally illiterate. He worked in construction and that has become his vocation, the report said. Apparently he has worked as a general labourer with a construction company over the years. He reports no organised recreation or leisure activities.
Sarjoo entered the United States as a construction worker in 1997 on a work visa which expired. He then entered Canada in November 2004 and applied for refugee status.
Sarjoo’s application for refugee status was dismissed on August 15, 2008 and a notice was sent to him on that date that his mother received. He is subject to a deportation order.
These men going all over an plye they trade ,good he get jail time .is people like them give decent an law abiding guyanese like us bad name .
Guyanese continue to bring shame and dishonour to their homeland.
Bold individual to be illegal and then comit an assault. Sign of the times!!!!
thats not bold nene thats down right stupid and dumb.
This guy is ridiculous.
Well here we go again. Dem Bajans gon kill we today. We want to go and live in people country illegally and commit crime on top the bargin. Anyway, Baje, they are being very “humane” with the brother. So humane that the man could skip across to the good old US of A and do an illegal thing too.
Oh pleaseeeeeeeeee, it’s not like dem Bajans don’t commit crime in other people’s country too?
This is not about Barbados,fer K-Rice sake stop shifting the blame and issue away from yourselves.Stand up and tek de licks like a man .There is no consolation in any of us saying, I tell you so.In the outside world we from the Caribbean are all lump together as one.
These are the people that are giving hard working and law abiding Guyanese a bad name.
I wish Larry King on cnn and de home land security lady readin this story because dem both seh de 19 terrorists came from Canada…..like Sarjoo de terrorists look whe he too came from..ehehehehehehehehehehe…….
evil, your trade mark “eheheheheh”
love your disguise, my blog axed by SN on this one.
good work SN.
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hehe!!! We country men dem like fu wok with blade! It makes dem feel like Zorro or King Arthur…heheeehe
Why is this of such importance to be in the SN?
There are so many of these run-of-the-mill cases, that it
boggles my mind that this needs publicity in Guyana.
Surprising that they did mot publish his picture also.
Karl,they got poor banna reporter on line to police headquarters and scanning internet with words “Guyana -crime” all day to get these stories for National Inquirer types and make it look like papers selling. So no time to do proper stories about the ongoing development and progress in Guyana..Mayhem, disrorder, crime, “Guyanese fleeing”, dem stories like that to “blame the government” ..
this to show guyanese, what the real law is all about
What you want the newspaper to report? Furthermore what do you want the bloggers to post comments on? I scan this paper everday and it seems as if only a certain type of story is being read. By the final count all the other serious articles scarely recieve a second glance. Print what the people want to read and what they understand.
He attended school up Grade Five.This is a good candidate for a domestic worker.Reddy, you should make your way back to Guyana so that Bharrat Jagdeo can sharpen your domestic worker skills then post you back to Barbados.
LOL .YesRasta, that one was below the belt.
You illegally in the people’s country, stay low and behave your damn self. What is really wrong with this man? When they do there nonsense in their state of drunken stuper they blame rum when they are cought. The bottle did not hold him at gun point and force the rum down his throat. After jail deport him.
Smitty yuh now seeing why dem does get kicked out from adda countries?den dem does cry govt nat representing dem……dont worry dough…e comin back soon in ah guyana…yall deal wid e deh….meh hope yuh see e bin amerika fuss and den e come hey…suh yuh know whe e get dat from fuss…ehehehehe
he should be jail for at least 5 years and deport his behind …
Soldier you aint leff America yet to run back to GY?
Jagdeo cant wait longer for you, Jagdeo needs you now when you flying back man? or you walking back?
i have a read story yesterday and expect to see it here, ???????????, however the saga is still unfolding with a new twist this morning, hope SN can give us the full report tomorrow, two days late.