Following an article in Wednes-day’s edition of Stabroek News highlighting a city jeweller’s disappointment at the police for not taking a statement from him on the murder of his wife more than two months ago, ranks turned up at his home the same day and took an official report.
Tanieram Doodnauth had told Stabroek News on Tuesday that on the night of the incident a detective went to his home to take a statement but he told the policeman that he was unable to do so because of the condition he was in. The detective, he said, asked for the serial number of his gun, which had been stolen when the bandits shot his wife, Ashmini. He said he gave it to the policeman, who told him he would return at 10 am the following day to take the statement. The policeman then called and rescheduled for 2 pm, he said.
Doodnauth told this newspaper that the policeman never showed up and no one ever contacted him after that.
The man was baffled as to the reason why police hadn’t contacted him to get the statement so that they could commence their investigation. A story to this effect, as well as a letter, was published in Wednesday’s edition of this newspaper.
The man’s daughter told Stabroek News yesterday that on Wednesday morning policemen went to their Lot 173 Pike Street, Kitty residence to take a statement from her father but he was not at home. The woman said they returned that afternoon and took statements from her father and his son.
On November 28 around 3 pm the couple closed up the jewellery store that they operated in the Stabroek Market and took a taxi home.
When the car stopped in front of the house two armed men approached and demanded a bag that they had with them. The bag contained Doodnauth’s licensed firearm and some fruits.
The men shot 56-year-old Ashmini once in the neck, ordered the driver out of the car and drove off.
A passing vehicle stopped and rushed the injured woman to the hospital where she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. She died several days later. The car was found abandoned in an ‘A’ Field, Sophia Street several hours later
