Wife denies plotting hit on shot auto dealer

In happier times: (from left to right) Vishnu Persaud, Deokarran ‘Ram’ Sanasie and Patsy Sanasie

Patsy Sanasie yesterday denied having any role in the attempted hit on her husband, auto spares dealer Deokarran ‘Ram’ Sanasie, who was shot by a gunman last Friday and she suggested that her husband may be “mentally sick” after he accused her and her brother of plotting to kill him.

“I am innocent and I knows nothing about what is going on, absolutely nothing,” Patsy said in her first public statement since she was released from police custody, at a press conference at her 129 Atlantic Gardens home yesterday. “The killers are out there and my husband should focus out there on what is going on. I think he needs to go to the doctor and check himself out. He is mentally sick. He holding innocent people for this crime. I am his wife and I have lived with him for 29 years. Everything that he state in the papers are lies and I have proof. I have a lot of proof,” she added.

Sanasie, 58, of Lot 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara was shot last Friday evening by a man who approached him and discharged several shots while he was