– bought knives on Saturday
The Vreed-en-Hoop man, who slashed his former reputed wife to death on Tuesday before turning the knife on himself and ingesting a poisonous substance, died early yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and reports are that he carefully planned the event.
Vishnudat Tajram and Omawattie Kallicharran on their wedding day
Relatives of 31-year-old Vishnudat Tajram said he died around 1 am yesterday.
Around midday on Tuesday, he killed 26-year-old Omawattie Kallicharran at his sister’s Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara home. The couple had shared a rocky relationship that produced a four-year-old son and had been separated for about two years. Kallicharran’s relatives said Tajram had been in the habit of threatening the young woman and she had made several reports at both the La Grange and Dem Amstel police stations.
Meanwhile, further reports reaching this newspaper indicate that Tajram had been planning the murder/suicide for more than three days. He had purchased the three knives recovered at the scene on Saturday last at a store in Vreed-en-Hoop and had informed a taxi driver that he had “a work” for him.
This was the taxi driver who transported the couple to the Canal Number Two address around midday on Tuesday.
Tajram’s sister, Kileshwarie Tajram, had said that she was at the back of her house watering plants when the couple arrived. However, it has now been revealed that in fact she was present when the couple reached the house and had given the taxi driver a glass of water before he left.
Kileshwarie Tajram had said on Tuesday that by the time she left her kitchen garden and proceeded to the front to see who was at her home, Kallicharran had already been killed and her brother was vomiting.
She gave conflicting statements to the police and was subsequently taken into custody and held on Tuesday night. She was only released late yesterday afternoon after giving the police a further statement. Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, Kallicharran’s brother said he had received information that it was a driver attached to a taxi service at Vreed-en-Hoop who had transported the couple. He said he visited the taxi driver, who was not hesitant to speak to him and even proceeded to La Grange Police Station yesterday morning to give a statement to the police.
According to the brother, the driver said Tajram had contacted him about three days before the incident and informed him that he had “a work” for him.
However, on Monday he informed the driver that he would no longer need him. But around 8 am on Tuesday, he called the driver and told him to pick him up at his home. This was consistent with what Tajram’s mother had said.
The taxi driver reported that Tajram told him he had to pick up a girl. However, between 8 am and 11 am — the time Kallicharran left her La Jalousie home to travel to Georgetown to uplift her passport — he had the driver take him to shops in two West Coast Demerara villages where he drank several alcoholic beverages. As they drove around, the driver reported, Tajram received several calls on his cellular phone. The driver reportedly said that every time he received a call, Tajram would tell him that the girl was not ready.
Their last stop, the driver told Kallicharran’s brother, was at a shop in La Jalousie where Tajram bought some rum. He was just about to start drinking it, when his phone rang again and he reportedly received information from someone that Kallicharran had left her home.
Tajram had the taxi driver drive to the corner of the main street in La Jalousie, where they saw Kallicharran walking out to the main road. Her brother said the driver told him, “how when she come out Navin [Tajram] went and hug she and bring she to de car and when dem went inside, he tell she how dem going to he sister in Canal Number Two. De taxi driver say how de girl ent resist, suh he ent know nuttin deh wrong.”
But he said he did not think his sister would have gone willingly with Tajram as she was afraid of him and wanted nothing to do with him.
The taxi driver told Kallicharran’s brother that if the woman had resisted he would have done something as they passed more than one police station on their way. He said the driver told him that it was only after they turned into Canal Number Two that Tajram slapped Kallicharran.
“He [the driver] say how he turn and ask he [Tajram], wha he slap de girl fuh and he say how she mouth too hot and tell he not to worry how de two a dem good,” the brother said.
When they arrived at the sister’s home, the taxi driver said, she came outside and he asked her for a glass of water which she gave him. He said she also gave Kallicharran some water. The taxi driver said he then left.
Meanwhile, Tajram’s relatives are angry that the police held his sister overnight.
“She nah know nutten. She ent kill nobody wha dem keep she fuh,” a brother said. When told that she had given the police a false statement, he said: “Yea but she din frighten. Is nah like she do nutten. She never had no police story and she frighten dat is all.”
A senior police officer told Stabroek News that the woman was held because of her conflicting stories. She later told the police that when her brother attacked Kallicharran with a knife, she told her to run but as the woman attempted to escape she fell down and her brother then stabbed and slashed her throat. He then stabbed himself and drank the poison he had with him.
Kallicharran’s relatives are of the opinion that if both the taxi driver and the man’s sister had acted differently, the young woman might have been alive today.
A post-mortem examination is expected to be performed on her tomorrow and she would be cremated on Sunday.
It is sad that two young people are no longer with us. Now a son is an orphan. What a trajedy? May they both find eternal peace at last.
The spelling should have been “tragedy” instead of “trajedy”.
May they both find eternal peace? Are you kidding me. That’s premeditated murder. He KNEW that he was going to kill her. I hope he suffers and she rest in peace.
He’s gonna burn in hell for taking what he could never give and for depriving his child of his mother.
BORA YOU ARE NOT IN A SPELLING OR GRAMMA CONTEST…D SPELLIN CONTROLE DEAH RITE IN FRONT A ME EYE AN I AINT USIN IT..THE IDEA IS TO EXPRESS OURSELVES WITHOUT HURTING ANY ONE’S FEELINGS…..MECK SUM LAFF-JOKE an PULL SOME PEOPLE LEGS.
Killing Women in Guyana is the national pastime.Sympathies for the young woman’s family,none for the killer.
I found the end of your blog so funny!
Something about this story is smelling fishy.
TT,
Nope. It’s my feet.
Stale news.Already covered. Another milking of a blood and poison item and providing more anguish for grieving relatives.
One of the editors to reporter yesterday; ” Banna: the police say whey dey panties deh ? She din get rape ? You stupid ! Dis keeping we in jobs. Yuh din see the hits yesterday. And come gat wipe the chinee food off muh desk… “
Reddy ! You are becoming very funny of late. Keep your jokes coming. What it is about the ‘chinee food’ ? Such imagery.. can’t stop laughing.
ready in barbados, if SN was motivated by the number of hits they receive online on a story they would have posted all my comments. because God knows my blogs. therefore ur comment is false.
It is a pity that he did not see it fit to just take his own life and leave the woman alone. Now two young lives are over and for what?
WITH ALL THE ABUSE THAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED, THE TAXI DRIVER SHOULD HAVE DRIVEN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION, ESPECIALLY KNOWING THE THE KILLER WAS UNDER INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL.
THE SISTER SHOULD HAVE STARTED BAALIN FOR HELP THE MOMENT THE FIRST WOULD WAS INFLICTED….ITS TIME FOR US TO BE ALERT AND DO OUR BEST NOT TO LOOSE OUR COMPOSURE…THIS IS GETTING US NOWHERE……EASY WORDS TURN AWAY WROTH HARSH WORDS STUR UP ANGER…THE MIND HAS TO BE CONDIDITIONED TO STAND ABOVE CERTAIN SITUATION….MANY ARE WILLING …BUT ARE VERY WEAK….THE POWER HAS TO BE GENERATED TO STERNGTHEN THE WILL.
HELP IS NEEDED DESPERATELY
Don’t blame the taxi driver he did’t know the fool was going to kill that woman…so he was drinking that don’t mean the driver know he was a killer in waiting.
Condolences goes out to both family, hope they find peace and solace, RIP.
my condolence to the woman family especially the son who lost a mother but not a rotten father who always treaten to kill him as well
sharon the difference with you and me i have more humannes in me than you can show, let me share something with you back in 1990 my sister was gunned down by her husband in the streets of brooklyn their relationship was on the rocks, he was from belize and she was born here, domestic violence don’t discriminate, anyway he was sentenced to 15 to life and they had a son who is now 20yrs old and he’s ok, my point is after all of that i don’t hold no hatrage to this brother, if i see him on the streets today i wont rush him to do him anything, his conscience will get the best of him, it’ not in me to hold hate it will eat me up, so i say to you learn to love rather than hate.
amen-ra i know what you are talking about…sad that sometimes things like this has to bring back memories…like i said before who feels it knows it..my sister and her 16 months old baby was killed by her husband too but no one could prove it…the police came and told us that my sister and the baby were on a picnic..the baby crept away and fell into a creek and my sister jumped behind him so they both drowned…when we point out marks of violence oh her head and body the police did not want to hear none of it…we knew what went down…my sister would never go on any picnic ever…she and her baby was killed and thrown overboard….like you said bro…it will eat away at them for life…my brothers and dad did nothing to him…just six months after we saw him…man–he looked like a walking zombie..he lost his job…he lost him home.he lost his money…he was living on the street on the east coast..then he went into some one’s yard to thief fruits and the owner chopped him up with a cutlass real bad where he could not use his hands…he asked my mom and dad–bless their soul–to keep him…they said sorry…he then admit to them that he lost his temper one day while the baby was crying….the rest is history…my mom and dad walked away from him and never looked back at him…he died two weeks after…a speeding car hit and dragged him under for a long way…in the end they all get whats coming to them….Respect Bro……..
No sympathy for this murderer however,my condolences to the family of this young lady,,,
Sadly, this coward took the easy way out and their child is now orphaned.
THE SIS IS STILL WITHOLDING INFORMATION.
For your information, releasing or witholding information will not bring back the deceased to life.