-family believes he was murdered
The body of a 47-year-old man of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek was discovered yesterday morning across a drain with a gaping wound to his head and a steel rod stuck in his groin and protruding through his back.
Relatives believe that the unemployed Tirbawaniepersaud Totaram called ‘Randy’ was murdered sometime on Wednesday night along the sea-dam where a pool of blood was found close to a pair of shorts belonging to him.
They also felt that his body which was clad only in his underwear was lifted and deliberately stuck face-down into the one-ft high steel-rod to make it appear as an accident.
Another pool of blood was also about three feet away but there was no blood trail leading to drain.
There were also marks of violence “across his ribs.” Police recovered a piece of blood-covered wood close to the scene.
There was also blood coming from the groin area.
His brother, Jerry Totaram, 48, who made the discovery around 7 am as he was going to work at a sawmill told Stabroek News that at first he did not realize his brother was dead.
He immediately rushed to his brother’s house a short distance away to get another brother, Michael to pick him up. After they saw the piece of wood and the wounds to his head and realized that he was stuck to the steel-rod they contacted the police from the Springlands Police Station.
Police said in a release that the man’s body was found around 5:45 am yesterday “lying face downwards impaled on a steel rod that was protruding from a concrete drain which was under construction in the vicinity where he resided.”
Jerry said one of his brother’s feet was hanging over the drain and the other was folded up.
Totaram lived in the lower flat of the house where his mother and brother, Michael resided. His mother went downstairs around 5:30 am to pick flowers to pray and saw his apartment door open.
Thinking he had just left to go out, the woman did not suspect anything was amiss.
Jerry said that although his brother liked to consume alcohol he never interfered with anyone.
The man became a heavy drinker when his wife walked out on him about 10 years ago with their two sons who are now 17 and 14 years old.
He also owned a joinery workshop but most of his tools and equipment were stolen and he was never interested in investing in it again.
His body was taken to the Skeldon Hospital mortuary where a post-mortem examination will be conducted.
