Family of suspects in T&T girl’s murder says harassment continuing

Nikita Ramischand

The family of the contractor wanted over the month-old murder of a Trinidadian teen is still receiving threatening calls from a person claiming to be a relative of the dead girl and who has said both suspects have been captured and are being tortured.

Nikita Ramischand, 18, the daughter of prominent Guyana-born attorney Odai Ramischand, was killed on April 25, with the main suspect being a 25-year-old Guyanese construction worker, Ramesh ‘Alvin’ Sookram. The man fled to Guyana after the murder along with his 16-year-old cousin who is also said to be a suspect.

Dhanwantie Sookram, the mother of the main suspect, told Stabroek News yesterday that she continues to receive phone calls from a man who had initially identified himself as a relative of the